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...During the ball's split-second journey from the bowler's hand to the batsman, Bradman would show more of his peculiar method. His backlift wasn't straight but in the direction of second slip, and his rear foot moved back and across the stumps. He liked to score from his first ball, then assess the vagaries of the pitch from the other end. He was most vulnerable early?he made seven noughts in 80 Test innings?but, once settled, an all-out attack was likely. These consisted of shots of all types, with a weighting toward late cuts...
...however, PDAs are breaking out into all sorts of shapes and sizes. Some double as phones, while others look more like pagers. What finally caught my eye was a pair of credit-card-size organizers from Royal and Xircom. They looked small enough to slip into my pocket without so much as a bulge, and I liked the fact that I could carry one without listing to one side...
Turkey this week looks a lot like Russia, Brazil or Thailand during the Asian currency crisis of 1997 - financial panic, a crashing currency and interest rates that reached 17 percent a day before the central bank had to let the currency slip into free fall...
...whistle, allowing just enough time for Ruddock to step back and let the puck slip over the goalline to pull the Big Green even...
...governments that both countries would send their own immigration and police officials to the Balkans to help bust human trafficking rings, which are responsible for 10% of the illegal migration into Europe. On Friday Britain and France agreed to dispatch immigration officers to root out asylum seekers trying to slip across the Channel on the Eurostar. Meanwhile Britain's Home Secretary Jack Straw pressed for a tougher line against asylum shoppers-migrants who pass through several European countries before applying for asylum-and an overhaul of the international convention on refugees. Straw wants the legitimacy of many asylum claims...