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...Winners QUEEN ELIZABETH II Monarch goes to The Full Monty and receives Jennifer Lopez. The throne hasn't seen that much booty since the days of Sir Francis Drake ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER The Terminator gets a California ski run named after him. Modeled after his career, it's a steep downward slope ending in a bottomless abyss "MR. McCHINA" U.K. entrepreneur beats McDonalds and is allowed to sell Chinese fast food as McChina. McGizzard Happy Meals come with a cheap toy Losers FABIEN BARTHEZ Sieve-like French goaltender may get butter brand named after him. The money will be handy when...
...Gross Domestic Product (GDP, or the output of goods and services produced within the U.S.) shrank at an annual rate of 1.1 percent during the 3rd quarter of 2001. This is the most dramatic decline since 1991, when the country was firmly mired in recession, and represents a steep revision from the original estimate of 0.4 percent, released last month...
...clearly not a surprise. As revisions go, this is a pretty steep one, which would suggest that things are indeed as bad as they feel. A lot of people have felt the recession for months, and it simply hasn?t shown up in the numbers. So in a way this figure just validates what we?ve been feeling for a while...
...Cambridge real estate market doesn’t look as steep in a U-Haul’s looming rearview mirror on the way to Ann Arbor, Mich.—or to San Bernadino, Calif., Syracuse, N.Y. or Any-University-Town, USA. This is a mixed blessing for the families of Harvard junior faculty members who spend an average of six or seven years here and then move on to other institutions...
...driver made a hard left, looking for a hole [cover] - it was kind of a running firefight." By now it was dark, and the journalists could see tracers streaming through the air in their direction. "There was lots of incoming, the driver was going straight down a steep hill, looking for a hole [cover]. The German [Volker Handloik, a photographer for the German magazine Stern] fell and rolled, there were people falling off the APC at the back. I did not see much as I was on the front, holding on to a cannon...