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...what might have been taking place inside Columbia in the critical minutes after the video went black and before the ship was destroyed. The sketchy picture that all this paints is of a professional team of astronauts doing everything they could to fly their vehicle, even as events overtook them...
Rank and Bile Size matters, Brits crowed, when the U.K. overtook France in 1999 to become the world's fourth-biggest economy. But with the British pound down nearly 5% against the euro since January, and the U.K.'s ?1 trillion gross domestic product falling in value against France's GDP as a result, the French may soon be able to claim it was a grande illusion. If the pound falls less than 1% more, to 0.68 to the euro, France will again take the lead. To which Brits will surely reply, "It's really growth that counts...
...selling power of all that is Italian, says Maurizio Dallocchio, dean of the business management school at Milan's Bocconi University: "He never gave up on that vision of creating a strong, independent Italian industry with an international perspective. He made Italy famous in the world." By 1968 Fiat overtook Volkswagen as the largest carmaker outside the U.S., with 157,000 employees turning out 1.75 million cars a year. Fiat continued to expand through much of the 1970s and 1980s, a period marked by labor unrest and terrorism. That's one reason Agnelli transferred manufacturing abroad to places like...
...Black and White’s success did not come easily as the Tigers and the Big Red led over Radcliffe at the start. Cornell overtook Princeton’s fast start in the first 500 meters, while Radcliffe still fought to find rhythm on the choppy water of the Charles...
With a record $683 million in private donations, Harvard overtook Stanford University as the most powerful fundraising machine in higher education. Two years ago Stanford had claimed the number one position from Harvard but last year finished second among all national universities with $469 million in private gifts. Columbia and Yale Universities followed with about $350 million each...