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...down. Last March, Branson sold 49% of his Virgin Atlantic airline to Singapore Airlines for a nice $900 million. But his Virgin Trains-about 17% of Virgin revenue-are still notoriously late and slow. Much-hyped experiments like Virgin Cola-remember the curvaceous Pammy bottle?-have quietly gone flat. And now Branson's People's Lottery is locked in an ugly fight over the charity-driven British lottery franchise. For a business built less on a particular product line than on its glamorous, do-right image, this ought to be worrying stuff...
...furnaces. It's in the finishing process-when the goo is turned into billets (two tons that can be formed into beams or cables) or slabs (up to 50 tons that can be pressed into strips and rolled into coils). These are the basic divisions between long products and flat products, and each steelmaker has its forte. "There are only a few players in each product," Dupont says. "Most steel beams are made by Corus [itself formed two years ago through the merger of British Steel and the Netherlands' Hoogovens], Salzgitter or Arbed, and this new company has close...
...this weekend was not really about the future. Rather, the Crimson's two final games at home were attempts to salvage a season gone awry, a season that had started with so much promise but instead fell flat on its face in two short weeks...
...their tragedy. Dozens of people who come to our kitchen bear the telltale signs of a nervous breakdown in progress, the stuttering, the facial tics. Many others are in deep denial, like Varsha, a Bhuj housewife in her late thirties. The apartment block that housed her third-floor flat has collapsed. Although she and her family were unhurt, the sight of all their worldly possessions going to dust has left her unbalanced. Every day, from dawn till dusk, she stands guard over the pile of bricks and mortar, "to make sure thieves don't take our things." There...
...Lions beat Harvard 65-55 a month ago in New York in a game in which the Crimson started flat and never recovered. Columbia brings a 1-11 road mark to Lavietes Pavilion, however, where Harvard has beaten eight of its 11 opponents this season...