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...remarkable memory for names of wives and children, and she can be gracious in embarrassing moments. Once, at a dinner at Chequers, a nervous waitress spilled a plate of roast beef and gravy on the Treasury's Sir Geoffrey Howe. Thatcher leaped to the terrified girl's side and comforted her: "There, there, dear. It could happen to anybody...
...office on Shanghai's famous Bund, and I half-jokingly told him I was a little nervous about my investment. Analysts' reports these days are full of tales about China's real estate bubble. Was it possible that the skeptics might be right - that Shanghai itself is already overbuilt, and the suburbs Guo is helping create are a bridge way too far? He looked at me as if I were from another planet, then smiled politely. "There is only one Shanghai in China," he said. "People want to come here from all over the country. People need good quality housing...
...week. Not only did she admit to loaning her cash-strapped campaign $5 million in order to keep pace with Obama ahead of Super Tuesday, but on Sunday Clinton replaced her campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle with long-time confidante Maggie Williams, and Monday she had to reassure some nervous donors and endorsers that the nomination was still within her reach. Still, Clinton is nowhere near being counted out: she has raised more than $10 million online since Super Tuesday, she still leads in most national polls and is making a big push to be competitive in Virginia, where...
...Turns out Einstein's physics provide the answer to that old paradox. A truly irresistible force colliding with a genuinely immovable object will produce an enormous black hole - which is, come to think of it, precisely what some nervous Democrats are starting to worry about...
...scientists also found a correlation between the severity of dyslexia and the level of disorganization of the nervous tissues, suggesting a close link between...