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...crisp day in Valencia, Spain, early last month, a small man in a cardinal-red jumpsuit walked a few steps from a million-dollar motor home and ducked into a lavish hospitality tent, both in the same bright scarlet. No one was allowed anywhere near him, but throngs of Spaniards hanging over the railing of Valencia's Ricardo Tormo racetrack went crazy. "Look up here, Fernando! Te quiero, Fernando...
...wind tunnel, for example, costs close to $40 million to construct, not counting the corps of engineers needed to run it. Average annual team budgets had climbed near $300 million and the biggest teams spent $500 million. Sponsorship and prize money rarely brought in half that. "Very few of the teams could actually make any money," says Caroline Reid, who co-authors Formula Money, the authoritative guide to F1's finances. (See a brief history of Formula...
...Zakir's Gitmo interrogators believed him, even while he was plotting revenge against his captors. In December 2007, he was flown back home, placed in an Afghan prison near Kabul and released shortly after, perhaps as a result of his tribal connections; his Ahunzada tribe from Helmand was considered a Karzai ally. Commenting on why such a lethal foe was freed from Gitmo, a NATO general - who asked not to be identified - replied with a shake of his head, "Human intelligence is guesswork at best. You never know if someone like this will go peacefully back to their tribe...
...dealing with climate change means accepting a higher price on everything from gasoline to electricity. In crowded, low-lying Bangladesh, it means trying to avoid catastrophic flooding. Atique Chowdhury, Give Your Vote's organizer in Dhaka, is a self-described climate refugee, a former resident of an island near the Bay of Bengal that has been almost completely abandoned because of rising sea levels. "As a major emitter of carbon dioxide, the U.K. must take the responsibility," he says. But developing nations still want a say on how that's done. (See pictures of British soldiers in Afghanistan...
...Cohen ’10, a former Eliot House resident who moved into an apartment near Inman Square this year after spending the fall semester in Argentina, says that his experiences overseas changed his perspective on living spaces...