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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bayer's Bitter Pill | 3/2/2003 | See Source »

Choosing the right blend in your local coffee bar just keeps getting more complicated. Now java junkies are faced with terms like organic, shade grown and fair trade. Each of these "cause coffees" usually costs a few dollars more a pound, forcing consumers to balance issues of ecology and politics against their budgets. That can be a difficult task before the first dose of caffeine in the morning. But we're here to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coffee with Cream--And a Conscience | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

Though his first interests at Harvard were modernist writers such as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Pearl says he soon realized that these authors were Dante enthusiasts. Pearl himself encountered Dante through three sequential graduate seminars given by Pertile, each of which treated a different section of the Divine Comedy...

Author: By Rebecca Cantu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dante Novel Explores History of a Translation | 2/14/2003 | See Source »

...anything, the European invasion has shown that even in the era of 250-pound behemoths, skills matter. Players adjust their skills to compensate for the checking, making the fancy goals all the more impressive...

Author: By David Weinfeld, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Weinlanguage: W. Hockey Should Legalize Body-Checking | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

Sitting down to the table, Walker said he thought his biggest threat would come from the Northeastern eater to his right, a 300-pound lineman on the football team...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Widdicombe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Wins Burger Eating Contest | 2/7/2003 | See Source »

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