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...certain pair of pants is also making the sport tough to watch. The Norwegian men's team is sporting garish red, white and blue harlequin-looking trousers that make golf attire look swank by comparison. The slacks have generated so much attention that as the Norwegian team was walking off the ice after destroying France 9-2 on Monday, a Canadian fan asked if he could buy them right from the players. The Norwegians declined, preferring not to enter the post-game interview area in their undies. "We knew it was going to get a lot of attention," says Norwegian...
...made steady progress, finishing 11th at the Super G in Kitzbuehel in January. He picked a great time to step into the limelight. Svindal won the gold by covering the course in 1:30.34, edging Miller's 1:30.62 by 0.28 seconds. It's the second medal for the Norwegian, who like Miller is a former world champion. He shaded Miller by a sliver of a time (.002) for silver in the downhill...
...country and invest it in another with higher interest rates and where the currency may be appreciating. Last year a plunging dollar and the Fed's decision to slash rates made the U.S. currency ideal for funding carry trades. For example, selling the U.S. dollar to buy Australian dollars, Norwegian kroner and Brazilian reals yielded returns in excess...
...cancer have about the same overall chance of divorcing as healthy couples, women with brain tumors or multiple sclerosis are six times more likely to be left by their spouses than men with the same condition are, according to a 2009 report in the journal Cancer. In a larger Norwegian study from 2007, 1.6% of male cancer patients got divorced, while nearly 3% of females did. (See more about divorce...
...never be anything more than a Democratic politician, and therefore inherently untrustworthy, but the global climate body rose above politics, having the benefit of being made up of thousands of scientists from more than 100 countries, who drew conclusions on climate change from countless peer-reviewed scientific studies. The Norwegian Nobel committee lauded the IPCC's fourth assessment report in 2007 as creating an ever broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming. (See pictures of the effects of global warming...