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...suddenly bow to his wife’s request that they go to Italy now, immediately, at once. The couple had brought along only Roxanna, Viscountess Felicity’s personal maid. Their departure had been strange. Felicity had developed a sudden fear of horses, and she refused to ride or even to be driven in a carriage. So Roxanna followed Felicity on foot to the train station. Every time a horseman passed them, Felicity had shivered uncontrollably.Now they had spent two months already in the palatial villa which Roxanna could see rising into view up the road, the rows...
...interestingly cheap" but analysts "certainly do not pretend to have any real clarity on the near-term market outlook." The investment bank said "for now, most investors in Asia will continue to focus more on cutting risk and hedging positions rather than putting on substantial new risk." The wild ride in Asian markets isn't over...
...opened scores of rural clinics and trained thousands of midwives. Nepal and Sri Lanka have trained midwives in emergency obstetrics. In the Indian states of Assam, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa, pregnant women now get 1,400 rupees ($32) to spend on whatever maternity services they choose--even a taxi ride to a clinic to give birth. Afghanistan has built 1,465 clinics and trained about 19,000 community health workers since the Taliban was ousted in 2001. The incidence of this worldwide tragedy can be reduced...
...things yet have pulses that never exceed 60 beats a minute. Who else, on seeing men, women, children and livestock fleeing, would run in the direction of the horror? Kupcake (whose real name is Dean) is typical of the breed. When he was a younger man, he used to ride his bike 80 miles (130 km) to his job, along the freeways of Southern California. Then he'd ride home and work out. I tell you all this to qualify Kupcake as a man who's not easily impressed...
...Maybe he thought he was going to have a more folksy ride.' BARBARA WALTERS, cohost of The View, after Cindy McCain accused the show of attacking her husband during an appearance...