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...knew that Federer ate candy bars before Grand Slam finals? The one request he's made to the All-England Club [which runs Wimbledon] is that they furnish the locker rooms with Kit Kats. The thing I found most remarkable is the Wimbledon locker room, which the players share. I played middle school basketball, and we wouldn't prepare in the same room as the opposition. These guys were in the fifth set of a Grand Slam final, with the rule of the sport hanging in the balance, and during the rain delays they are both repairing to the same...
...historic rout for Labour, a solid performance from the Conservatives and gains for fringe outfits including the far-right British National Party - graphically illustrated the concerns that launched Purnell's kamikaze mission. Labour's support has slumped under Brown. It has hemorrhaged support among the affluent voters of Middle England whose endorsement is essential to securing a parliamentary majority, and whom it wooed successfully in the 1990s. And it has been damaged, too, in hardscrabble industrial regions. A fresh face might be expected to give the party a boost and could hardly perform worse. But Brown picked up the keys...
Sabbag was even unluckier than Ollestad, if that's possible. In 1979 - four months after Ollestad's crash - Sabbag was on an Air New England flight that went down in a trackless forest just short of the airport on Cape Cod. There was no warning. "I breathed in," he remembers, "and when I breathed out I was pulling six Gs." His back and pelvis snapped on impact. He survived - along with the co-pilot and the other seven passengers, though not the pilot - and even learned to walk again. But he never escaped a sense that his life had been...
Northeastern Exposure. Warming will make skiing, ice-skating and snowmobiling pastimes of the past in many areas of the Northeast, decimating the multibillion-dollar winter-sports industry. The center of maple-syrup production will shift from New England to Canada, and production of apples and other produce that depend on cooler winters will decline...
...from the dark hours she and her mother had spent in a crowded lifeboat in the North Atlantic after the Titanic sank in 1912. Dean's 2-year-old brother was discovered aboard the rescue ship Carpathia, and the family--minus Dean's father, who drowned--returned safely to England. They were fortunate. Most of the children traveling in third class died...