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...presence. The handsome, doughty 23-year-old and F1's first black driver was bold yet rock solid last year right from his first race. Some of the former kart champion's overtaking maneuvers had veteran observers shaking their heads in astonishment. A comfortable winner in Melbourne before a fifth-place finish in Sepang, where Räikkönen dominated, last year's upstart is one of this year's favorites. Will Hamilton have the mettle to cope? Sound judges are sure of it. "Every now and again a talent comes along who sets everyone back a bit," says...
Called the Fifth Beatle by members of the band, Neil Aspinall used to shuttle the foursome to nighttime gigs in Liverpool while holding down an accounting job by day. Devoted friend, roadie and unofficial manager, he came to run the Beatles' music empire, Apple Corps, deftly negotiating with all four members--and the wives of the deceased--even when communication was most strained, and producing the popular Beatles Anthology retrospective albums, among others. Unwavering in his loyalty, Aspinall, unlike many other Beatles insiders, never told his--or their--story...
...YORK CITY New Yorkers celebrate Easter with parade down Fifth Avenue...
...biofuels will be less direct and less obvious. In Brazil, for instance, only a tiny portion of the Amazon is being torn down to grow the sugarcane that fuels most Brazilian cars. More deforestation results from a chain reaction so vast it's subtle: U.S. farmers are selling one-fifth of their corn to ethanol production, so U.S. soybean farmers are switching to corn, so Brazilian soybean farmers are expanding into cattle pastures, so Brazilian cattlemen are displaced to the Amazon. It's the remorseless economics of commodities markets. "The price of soybeans goes up," laments Sandro Menezes, a biologist...
...compared to 10.7 in fee-paying schools. A report by the Sutton Trust, an educational charity, found that children from poorer homes who were given scholarships to fee-paying schools dramatically outperformed their peers at state schools. They also went on to out-earn them, with almost a fifth attaining salaries of over $140,000 a year, more than twice the proportion from state schools...