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...days after last month's Grammy Awards, Terra Firma, the venture-capital firm that owns EMI, announced that the record giant had lost nearly $2.5 billion last year. Not only that, a brick wall looms: EMI has to raise more than $200 million in the next six months to ensure that it does not fall into the hands of Citigroup - the bank that lent Terra Firma, controlled by British financier Guy Hands, the cash to buy it 2½ years ago. (See the top 10 albums...
...collection of related fish, including bighead carp and silver carp - are what's known as an invasive species, an animal or plant that moves into a new environment, often badly disrupting it. Invasive species are becoming more common because of international trade, which turns the planet into a giant pinball machine, transplanting wildlife from one corner of the world to another, and because of climate change, which prompts species to migrate to more hospitable environments, often at the expense of those that already live there...
Then, there’s Harvard’s recent fascination with speed-dating. While we have feared running into "a giant room full of white guys with yellow fever" at past speed-dating events, we may end up seeing more sponsored by the Radcliffe Union of Students...
...men’s alpine team, meanwhile, struggled with the same issue that has plagued it all season—putting together clean races. The group finished 10th in both the giant slalom and the slalom...
McNamara also improved greatly over his Carnival performance, earning a combined score of 22nd following a 38th-place finish in the giant slalom and a slalom race in which he did not finish the day before...