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...blond Darya Vintilova propels herself out from the apparatus, does two full twirls and catches her legs on the side straps. The unicycle duo (strong Yuri Shavro, supple Diana Aleschenko) perform an apache while wheeling around the stage; then she doughnuts herself around his head. Zhang Gongli stacks four, six, eight chairs, one balanced on another, and does a handstand on the top of the pyramid. Anthony Gatto, a showman with a plethora of panache, tosses and catches seven balls, seven hoops, an alley's worth of bowling pins; he's simply the best juggler ever...
...Blanch, head of commodities research for Merrill Lynch in London, says he doesn't expect overall demand will return to 2007 levels until 2011 at the earliest. "Over a number of years we will get back to supply constraints," says Blanch, but "it won't happen over the next six to 12 months...
...January 2009 study, commissioned by the company, found that 55 hours of Rosetta Stone Spanish instruction should enable a student to pass the first semester course of a six-semester college Spanish program. "After 55 hours of study with Rosetta Stone students will significantly improve their Spanish language skills," writes Roumen Vesselinov, a statistical economist at Queens College. According to Rosetta Stone, a February 2009 survey showed that 92% of respondents expressed satisfaction with the product...
...been closed for more than six months now. It ran on tuition fees and government subsidies, but both have vanished. Most of the college's students are the children of civil servants who have to live on salaries of $100 a month. The government is too broke to inject funds into the institution, which was once the envy of students all over Africa. Justifying his beer, Majiri says, "At least I am not into thievery, like most of my colleagues, who are subsidizing their income that way." (See pictures from the long reign of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe...
...Iraq unraveling again? Nervous Iraqis worry that the new spate of violence is a sign of what could happen when the U.S. begins pulling its troops out in June (the complete withdrawal is slated for the end of 2011). (See pictures of Iraq's travails through the last six years...