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...changing football at home in Russia, too. The seamless combination of government and business has made a priority of returning the motherland to world football's highest ranks. Zenit boasts a side of national stars, including Andrei Arshavin and Pavel Pogrebnyak, whose dizzying salaries are financed by energy giant Gazprom, the team's owner. Moscow clubs Spartak and Dynamo are sponsored by their corporate patrons - also from the oil and gas sector - Yukos and Lukoil, respectively. The war chests that such firms bring to the game have led to galloping salary inflation, says midfielder Alexei Smertin - who is leaving London...
...four beleaguered Senate clerks to read the entire 492-page climate bill into the record on Wednesday night - an eight-hour ordeal that unfolded as a wild electrical storm crashed through the Washington area. Twisters touched down here and there, rain lashed the hot streets in wicked sheets, and giant lightning bolts arced through the sky near the Capitol dome. Scientists caution that no single storm can be linked to climate change, but if ever there was heavy weather sent down by angry climate Gods, this must have been it. "It should give Senators pause," said Reid, and then...
...fiberglass, resin, acrylic and stainless steel, but almost always playing with the threshold between the solid and the immaterial, the point at which a thing comes into being or dematerializes, or the ways a massive solid form, like Inwendig Volle Figur (inwardly turning full figure), can also be a giant entryway...
Their work has won the Cleveland Clinic team a feather that any techie would covet in his cap--the attention of Internet giant Google. Cleveland Clinic was one of the search engine's early partners in Google Health, an online EHR service that was launched on May 19. For the hospital, it's an opportunity to expand patients' access to records. "We could only get so big on our own," says Joe Turk, a Web developer and the director of new products on the Cleveland Clinic technology team. "Google Health lets us go national...
...into a huge harmonious collision. The track is called Life in Technicolor, and what differentiates it from previous Coldplay attempts to lasso the cosmos (Speed of Sound, Clocks) is the details--or rather, the fact that there are details. Whereas before, the band would pound listeners into submission with giant chords and a lyric about space, here they let the songs' various parts resolve themselves, and there are no lyrics at all, just a single evocative group yawp...