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...they can count their fingers by the end of the game. But brain pain doesn't affect just boys. Ask Christin Anson, a high school junior from Lancaster, Ohio. During a soccer game her freshman year, an opposing player kicked her square in the back of the head. She shook it off and even finished the game. "I just thought I'd have a headache for a day or two," Anson, now 17, says. Instead, she started showing symptoms of a concussion: lack of concentration, bad balance, delayed reactions. Soon the onetime honor student could read at only a third...
...payday that shook Wall Street: nearly $140 million in compensation set aside for Big Board chairman Dick Grasso. But when Grasso, CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, tried in 2003 to cash in early, the revelations about his staggering paycheck triggered an imbroglio that ended his eight-year reign as King of the Club and brought a lawsuit by then New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Was Grasso, who was interviewed for the book, a victim of the post-Enron era or just another fat-cat CEO? Both. Gasparino insists that Grasso was "one of the most remarkable...
...anti-U.S. agenda took office in February 1999, prices were languishing at about $10 a bbl.--so the former paratroop commander campaigned to revive OPEC, persuading the cartel to rein in production to boost prices. The effort paid off when the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq shook oil markets and prices began their awesome ascent. The spike also helped Chávez recover from a reckless and devastating 2002 strike by his opponents inside PDVSA...
...forces through the neighborhood, appeared to be targeting U.S.-led coalition soldiers. His vehicle was completely incinerated; all that remained was a charred gasoline engine. Two of the three land cruisers were extensively damaged - testament to the force of the explosives. "I heard a huge sound, and the earth shook under my feet," says Elyas Muradi, a 22-year-old security guard who had been walking through the neighborhood to get breakfast. "Then there was complete silence." Debris from the explosion littered the street 50 meters away...
...good job", Hakan Durkac, project manager at Muhabbet's record label Plak Music, afterwards commented on Steinmeier's performance. "He hit all the notes and shook his hips. He even took...