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...most disastrous municipal election result across the country in decades. But yesterday it got even worse. The resurgent Conservatives stomped to victory in a by-election in Crewe, a working-class town in northwestern England that has been an unsinkable Labour bastion since World War II. The sheer size of the victory - 17.6% of the electorate switched from Labour to Tory since the last election in 2005 - was sufficient cause to pass over the policy missteps and campaign gaffes that contributed to the debacle and go straight to the jugular concern of British politics these days: how long can Gordon...
...Jays (now called Rogers Centre) with sticky, bitumen-laced soil from the Aurora North mine in a weekend is mind-boggling. But it puts the business conducted on this chunk of boreal real estate into perspective: there are 173 billion bbl. of crude contained in an area roughly the size of Florida. It just...
After Eight Belles, a filly, was injured in the Derby and euthanized on the track, racing needs a feel-good equine story in the worst way. "He's got the size, the mentality, the stride and acceleration," says Angel Cordero, one of the best jocks of all time. "He's like a car--he comes with everything. Just step on it, and you're there...
...consumer-electronics company called Roku, in partnership with Netflix, has just launched a set-top box that brings us tantalizingly close to my dream. The Netflix player by Roku ($99 at netflix.com is a black, palm-size device that connects your broadband network to your TV (wired or wirelessly). For as little as $8.99 a month, you can have unlimited access to Netflix's library of more than 10,000 movies and TV shows on demand. Watch what you want, instantly, for as long as you want. You can even start a movie on your home TV and finish watching...
...will have overcome a front-runner who was, at least at the start, better organized and better funded and who shared a last name with the party's master strategist and two-term President. Next come daunting tasks; his campaign is about to grow rapidly, doubling or tripling in size as it prepares to take on valuable refugees from the losing camp, raise several hundred million dollars, find a vice president, plan and execute a convention in Denver and then mount a fall campaign - all in the span of just about 90 days...