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...Spanish Civil Guard carried out Operación Puerto in late May, raiding several apartments in Madrid, where they found stashes of frozen blood, steroids, growth hormones and EPO, among other substances. Five people were arrested, including a doctor, Eufemiano Fuentes, who has links to many élite riders. The Spanish Cycling Federation handed over a report to Tour officials implicating the three high-profile barred riders in the doping ring. The report also named five riders from the Astaná-Würth team, forcing all nine of its riders off the Tour (a team needs six cyclists to start the race...
...untenable, and it is a handicap for young people and students like me who simply cannot afford to buy a house and therefore need to rely on our parents. That is the social problem that lies beyond, and no one seems to have a solution. Javier Iglesias de Ussel Madrid Hail to the King I was impressed by Pico Iyer's essay about Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, a member of the royal family who is admired by his Thai subjects and who in turn is full of patriarchal love for them [June 19]. Indian epics are full of royal...
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Standing convention on its head--usually U.S. firms are the ones franchising their businesses in Europe--Vital Dent, based in Las Rozas de Madrid, Spain, launched its first U.S. location in New York City in December 2004. (Privately held Vital Dent operates some 250 offices in Spain, Portugal and Italy, most of them franchises.) Since then, the company has opened nine more dental offices there, all with an identical high-gloss, minimalist look, and seven more are under construction in Florida and Massachusetts. In the U.S., Vital Dent plans to draw traffic by offering new patients free cleaning, X rays...
...show that since 1999, Germans have been spending more on attending live music events than on CDs (j2.7 billion in 2003, compared to j1.78 billion). There are 167 festivals listed on German events website meinestadt.de between May and August alone. In Spain the Summercase Festival, which rotates lineups between Madrid and Barcelona, joins a crowded schedule just one week before the well-established Festival Internacional de Benicàssim (FIB), where the likes of Scissor Sisters, Madness and Franz Ferdinand will keep the four-day (and night) party going on a beach near Valencia...