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Vote early and often: that seems to be the strategy of European governments that are fast-tracking national referendums on the E.U. constitution. They hope to win passage quickly - before a lethal cocktail of ignorance, apathy and low turnout produces a potentially fatal no vote. In Spain last week, 77% of those who went to the polls voted yes, and though turnout was just 42%, the result was a big win for supporters of the document, which extends the E.U.'s reach into areas like immigration and asylum; recalibrates voting procedures among member states; and creates the positions...
Brown dominated the first half of the teams’ last matchup with a lethal outside attack. While Harvard was able to hold Bears star center Holly Robinson just 11 points on 3-for-10 shooting in 31 minutes of play, guards Lena McAfee and Sarah Hayes combined for 34 points, taking full advantage of a largely unguarded perimeter...
...some of the world's most successful auto manufacturers--Honda, Nissan, Toyota--Mitsubishi is one of the most troubled. The company has been shaken over the past year by revelations of long-running campaigns in various divisions to cover up critical manufacturing defects, some of which have proved lethal. Many large investors, including DaimlerChrysler and Japanese private-equity fund Phoenix Capital, have begun selling off their stakes or announced that they plan to do so soon, leaving questions about M.M.C.'s survival. Japanese sales dropped 40% in 2004, with $2.2 billion in losses in the first nine months of this...
...Harvard women’s basketball team silenced Brown’s lethal interior game on Friday night, but it did little else to contain a Bears offense that netted seven three-pointers in the first half. And even as Brown’s outside shooting stalled in the second half, the Bears compensated on the boards and buried the Crimson, 78-63 at Lavietes Pavilion...
...Given enough time, Vietnam should be able to tighten control over its poultry trade. The trouble is, bird flu may not wait that long. The disease is already endemic in much of Asia, and a recent WHO report showed that the H5N1 virus has become progressively hardier and more lethal, with a human mortality rate of 75%. Dr. Jeremy Farrar, director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, says he's shocked by the virulence of avian flu in the patients he has helped treat: "I've never experienced...