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...longest known internment of soldiers in modern history 15 million Number of Popsicle sticks used to construct the Mjollnir, a 15-m replica of a Viking vessel that will launch from Amsterdam next year in an attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean 67% Percentage of American workers who intend to keep working past retirement age, according to a Rutgers University survey 4,628 Number of pending bills shelved by the Philippine Congress while it deals with the political and financial scandals embroiling President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo With bureau reports. Numbers sources: AFP; A.P.; Reuters
...should be courting votes rather than controversy in the east. Some 26% of east German voters intend to cast their ballots for the Linksbündnis, according to Forsa. The appeal, Linksbündnis co-founder and former spd Finance Minister Oskar Lafontaine told Time, is that the party "offers an alternative. Wage- and salary-earners, pensioners, young people looking for education urgently need somebody who represents them in parliament." Merkel knows she needs to reach these groups, too. She never misses a chance to remind voters of Schröder's 1998 election pledge that if he couldn...
Haim Gross says he does not intend to quit even Gaza quietly. If the soldiers try to remove his family by force, he says, "we'll lock the house, chain ourselves together and pray." He believes such images of resistance, pitting Jew against Jew, will spur the nation to reject any more withdrawals from occupied land. But when the knock on the door comes at the Hilburg house, the moment Bryna calls "a calamity," her family "will be here at the table, drinking coffee. And when the soldiers arrive, we'll offer them a cup." Sammy breaks in. "And then...
...girls in a competitive culture, it's less about passion than about proving to boys that they can pass the ultimate test of toughness. Though they like to show off their bodies and have an impact, mostly on one another, 13-year-old girls really don't intend for their sexuality to be taken seriously. Finally, girls are talking about their own powerful feelings; they have complex and sometimes overwhelming insights into life. Their joy can be great and is visible, but their despair is hidden in solitary late-night crying, journal entries, weight obsessions...
...intend regulating in the hedge funds area in the immediate future...