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...United We Are the Winners. The Baltic state came in dead last in the 2005 semifinals. Could LT United's entry, which repeats the line, "We are the winners of Eurovision" over and over, be a not-so-subtle attempt at swaying the voting public? There's a fine line between tongue-in-cheek and just plain pathetic. Final odds: 100-1 Switzerland: six4one If We All Give a Little. Céline Dion won the 1988 Eurovision for the Alpine nation, even though she's French-Canadian, starting a trend of Swiss outsourcing. Last year's Swiss representatives Vanilla...
...some birds are actually doing fine, adjusting to change and even increasing their numbers--at least in the bird counts. Some hummingbirds, for example, that used to winter in Mexico don't bother to make the trip anymore because the U.S. is now warm enough all year long. A number of migratory species that nest in northeastern forests have rebounded because that part of the country is reforesting as agriculture declines. Bluebirds are thriving, says Butcher, because bluebird lovers have been setting up nesting boxes for them for the past half-century...
...that exercise also means the kids are exhausted at the end of the day and tend to sleep through the night. Nate was always fine after he fell asleep, but oh, those endless routines leading up to bedtime! For eight years, he insisted on sleeping in the same red T shirt with a yellow taxi on it, his large toy keyboard piano laid across his chest, his stuffed animal placed on a chair facing him and the radio playing a 24-hour news station...
...dispute with Foster about sharing credit for the gherkin, which is known more formally as the Swiss Re headquarters. But Foster's immense operation--he employs 534 people--is still thriving. It has projects under way in 22 nations, including a substantial addition to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, a pyramidal office tower in Moscow City and a huge airport for Beijing...
...fewer analysts in response to Negroponte's call. The DIA director, Lt. Gen. Michael Maples, has insisted that because "we're at war," he can spare very few billets, one senior U.S. official said. A DIA spokesman says Maples has no such view and that "we're progressing fine from our end in meeting NCTC's support...