Word: rik
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...were caught in a massive crash about 20 km from the finish. Eight riders were hurt, including Italy's Marco Pinotti, who was rushed to hospital unconscious, with cuts, abrasions and a broken nose. (He required 11 stitches.) Despite having suffered a broken collarbone in the same incident, Belgian Rik Verbrugghe remounted his bicycle and continued to the finish, although he too later retired from the race. And the next stage brought more of the same, with Kazakhstan's Alexandre Shefer hospitalized after sustaining facial injuries...
...traffic-control system, with all the job and sovereignty issues it entails, may not prove any easier. THE COMMON CURRENCY Just Don't Mention the War The British anti-euro campaign is telling a tale full of the pound and the Führer in cinemas this week. Rik Mayall, star of cult TV show The Young Ones, appears in a 90-second ad dressed as Hitler to shout "Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Euro!" (One people! One country! One euro!) The ad, which includes other celebrities arguing that it is not anti-Europe to be anti-euro, drew...