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...ghastly as the hurricane catastrophe has been, perhaps it is the very wake-up call that the U.S. and President Bush need to make them address the real possibility of devastation caused by global warming and what should be done about it-now. Hally Hardie St. Ives, England...
...keeping with British tradition, Thatcher will be addressed simply as 'Prime Minister.' Even before she paid her first visit to Downing Street, her campaign aides had arrived, their arms loaded with paperwork. The government of a determined woman whose work ethic had been forged in the heartland of England was taking shape with no delay...
...little after noon in oxford, England, last Thursday when Gina Policelli got the news by phone. No, no one called her up; she tuned in her mobile phone to bbc News 24 and caught the latest reports of the Liberal Democrat party conference, then flipped over to Sky News, all while standing on the Oxford University campus. "This is really impressive," gushed Policelli, 25, who works at the National Library for Health at the university. Welcome to the world of mobile television, where broadcasters, mobile operators and handset makers are trying to bring traditional TV to the planet's mobile...
...Harvard sailing team doesn’t launch sloops from its boathouse on the Lower Basin of the Charles, but that didn’t stop them from qualifying for the national championships, as they finished second in the New England qualifiers this weekend...
While its youngest talent spread out to a spate of regattas spanning New England, four of the Crimson’s elder statesmen piled into larger craft this weekend at the New England Sloops Championships, held at the Coast Guard Academy...