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...benefit from education or training. "The level they're at is just about survival," she says. "The public can't imagine having a daily life that's so empty and exhausting." In such circumstances, girls are often drawn into prostitution. Many have babies while still teenagers, partly to jump queues for social housing but mainly to find some affection. "What do you need to care about if no one loves you?" says Mullins. "If no one has love for you, you aren't going to feel love for other people when you get older...
...this makes me wonder if perhaps ours is the ropes-course generation. We appear to be of an age in which we are ready to jump on the trend of any train at a moment’s notice, all for the sake of appearing as though we are connected to one another. The solution is to call for another lap-sit, and then another, and then another...
...IRAQ INVADES KUWAIT Prices jump, then fall as allied forces react...
...barrel? Mere trivialities for the $25 billion yacht industry. Annual sales over the past five years have grown 10% to 15% and show no signs of tanking, thanks to increasing numbers of wealthy buyers from developing countries. In the fiscal year ending September 2007, Sunseeker's sales jumped 18.5%, to $473 million. And other yachtmakers are enjoying similar returns. Italy's Ferretti, for example, saw its production value jump 21% last year, to $1.37 billion...
...after all, involves battling gravity. But basketball coach Holger Geschwindner, 62, has found a way to turn the laws of physics to his advantage. A former captain of the German national team and a physicist, he has developed a series of formulas that may reveal the optimum arc for jump shots, using a combination of player height, arm length and release point. "Take differential and integral calculus. Make some derivations and create a curve," he recently said. "Everybody...