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...better. Kyriakos Sarantis, CEO of Sarantis, a $363 million consumer-products company, expects revenue to remain flat despite the problems at home, in large part because nearly 60% of his business is in Eastern Europe. "That exposure is helping," he says. Aegean Airlines, which may have to move to short-term leases for some of its fleet, is looking outward too. In the past six months, the carrier has added routes to Egypt, Israel and Turkey. Greece's $40 billion shipping industry--the country controls 22% of the world's oil-tanker fleet and nearly 25% of its cargo ships...
...their half sister.) One of St. Louis's jobs is to try to jog Yvolene's memory by asking about things like schools she's attended, friends she's had, birthdays and other celebrations. As St. Louis interviews Yvolene, a shy, slender teen whose sentences are as short as her braided hair, the girl whispers, "I don't want anyone to take me away...
What motivates you to get back on skis after terrible falls? -Lindsay Newton, Concord, Mass. I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad. I'm never scared. I love skiing fast. You're going 80 to 85 m.p.h. down an icy slope, and I love it. (Watch TIME's video "As Vonn Wins, a 'Bluebird' Day for Whistler Skiers...
...most important thing in the olympics is not to win but to take part." So goes the Olympic creed. It's a romantic ideal, one that can be hard to follow if you're an athlete who has endured years of intense training only to subsequently fall short in front of millions. Take Evgeni Plushenko. Following his silver-medal performance in men's figure skating, the Russian repeatedly insulted his first-place opponent, America's Evan Lysacek, and all but climbed atop the gold-medal podium ... Wait, he did that too. But Plushenko is hardly the first Olympic sore loser...
...everything that is good is properly recognized for its merits, and Dunster falls into that category. It’s okay—the knowledge of the awesomeness that other students don’t know of will be more than enough to sustain you through your short three years in this awesome House...