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Before we declare 2007 the Summer of Serena, let's just remember that we've seen faux sister-act revivals. In 2005, for example, both Serena and Venus won unexpected majors (Serena in Australia, Venus at Wimbledon), only to fade fast. But tease or not, the game's most compelling personality--hip, brash, beautiful--is once again part of the conversation, which tends to be lively when Serena is talking. "She's a complicated person," notes Zina Garrison, Serena's coach on the U.S. Fed Cup team. "And the world is intrigued with people that they can't quite figure...
Sitting on the couch watching TV, my foot started its nervous tapping, irritating my wife sitting next to me. Then it happened. Dancing with the Stars judge Len Goodman commented that the dancer's foot was moving so fast it looked like he had restless leg syndrome. My ears perked up. Having seen advertisements for pharmaceuticals to treat this condition, and not knowing what it was, I searched the Web for "restless leg syndrome" in an act of self diagnosis and began to wonder: What influences our searches for medical conditions...
...Founded by former Salomon Brothers partner and current New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg has grown agressively since its founding in 1981 by catering more exclusively than its diversified rivals' to financial professionals' need for accurate, reliable and fast access to a wide variety of historical and real-time business data. With Bloomberg now boasting almost a quarter of a million clients, it is hard to find a trader or money manager in any financial office without one of the company's distinctive, multi-screen terminals on his or her desk. The Thomson-Reuters merger, however, leaves no doubt...
...separated" from the military last spring, they moved to her hometown of Batavia, Ill., into the basement of her parents' split-level home. He found seasonal work measuring flooring, and, as that work dried up, filled out applications at Target and Home Depot with growing panic, "everywhere except fast food...
...endorsed the Stand for Security Coalition’s campaign to improve the livelihoods of the security guards, who are currently in union negotiations with their employer, AlliedBarton. Then last week, seven UC members, acting under a request by UC President Ryan A. Peterson ’08, fasted for a day to show the UC’s supposed support of Stand for Security’s hunger strike.The UC overstepped its bounds in passing the Stand for Security Act and its president overstepped in presuming to organize a UC-sponsored fast in support of the issue. The latter...