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Brown's course features a steep and winding first mile, followed by a three-mile loop around a lake. Yesterday's meet "went out slow, but then picked up hard," according to Regan, who added that one of the team's goals has been to "move up the pack's pace," in preparation for the bigger meets later this month...
Apparently because she suffered a stroke, she lost control of her car on a hairpin turn in France above Monaco. The 1972 Rover fell 40 yds. down a steep hillside and caught fire. A resident extinguished the fire and pulled Princess Stéphanie, her 17-year-old youngest child, from the driver's-side door (leading to speculation, eventually squelched, that the underage and unlicensed Stéphanie had been driving). Firemen extricated Princess Grace. The first confusing bulletins from the palace spoke only of a broken leg, but she never regained consciousness, and a brain scan showed...
...achieve their growth targets, and probably significant political problems for some countries." In the U.S., the debt troubles could mean less bank lending and slightly higher interest rates. The world banking crisis would thus be one additional trouble for an American economy struggling to pull out of a long, steep recession. -By Christopher Byron
...Monte Carlo was just gearing up for another prosperous summer of tourism and gambling. When my friend and I stepped off the train in Monaco (30 minutes away from our hotel in Nice, France) I was immediately reminded of what Ernest Hemingway once wrote of Switzerland: "A small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways." Closely packed high-rise apartment buildings and hotels dot the sunbaked hills of Monte Carlo, creating an atmosphere that is a dazzling and claustrophobic. We labored up a hill and, reaching its summit, gazed out over the city...
...length mirror. As children, Edie (born in 1943) and her younger sister Suky had needles of vitamin B injected daily in their bottoms. She recalled, or imagined, attempted rapes by her father and brothers. From the moment of conception into this modern House of Atreus, Edie was tracing a steep trajectory toward her own hell...