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...Wolfowitz listened intently and turned to an aide, impressed. "He's very exact," Wolfowitz said. Wolfowitz has a lot more number crunching ahead of him. As the unlikely new executive of an institution focused on improving living standards in the developing world, he is racing to get up to speed on everything from the price of coffee beans in Rwanda to the salaries of schoolteachers in Brazil. Having served four years as Donald Rumsfeld's hawkish deputy at the Pentagon, Wolfowitz suddenly finds himself on the front line of another war: the global battle against poverty, a cause that...
...allowing you to send particular clips one at a time or joined into a continuous movie. You input e-mail addresses and off it goes. Broadband is better when you're uploading your video: a 5-minute clip can easily take 10 minutes to upload, even on a high-speed connection. But even if it's going to multiple addresses, it only has to upload it one time. Recipients get just a link that they click to download and watch the video, so no one's e-mail inbox is bogged down by your clip...
...weakness in Nadal's tennis DNA is that Spain routinely produces great dirt ballers who have feet for the slow clay of the French--which rewards baseliners--but who can't serve and volley on the slick grass of Wimbledon or on the high-speed hard courts of the U.S. and Australian opens. Federer has dominated Wimbledon the past two years; Nadal lost to Alexander Waske, ranked 147th in the world, at the grass-court tune-up in Halle. Still, a Wimbledon win is one of Nadal's goals. "If he can get past the first week and some...
...became fitter. I began to work out, take care of my body more. It may be corny, but it would be untrue not to say that you do suddenly see the use of stopping to smell the flowers. Because if you're not careful, life will speed right back up on you, and you will forget how lucky you are to be on the right side of the grass each morning...
...pleased with how the eight raced,” junior stroke Sarah Bates said at the time. “I think we had an aggressive race, but it just wasn’t enough to match Princeton’s speed...