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...It’s lightweight racing, so it’s always very tight,” varsity stroke Dan Reid added. “You’re never going to get an easy race...
...Vanity Fair: mortality and money. A leading suspect for years, he had always firmly denied he was Deep Throat, including in his memoir, The FBI Pyramid from the Inside, published in 1979. But at 91, wrote author John O'Connor, a lawyer for the family, Felt, who had a stroke in 2001, is frail and suffers from confusion and memory loss. Members of his family, led by daughter Joan, said they wanted the world to know what Felt did before he died. Although he had admitted his secret identity to intimates and family in recent years, he was still reluctant...
...Eric Nicoli partly blamed a 13% dip in annual profits on the delay of the group's latest album. All the more irritating, then, that Crazy Frog's Axel F, mixing the theme tune from the Beverly Hills Cop movie with an infuriating mobile-phone ring tone - think two-stroke scooters voiced by an animated frog - outsold Coldplay's single fourfold last week, according to music retailer HMV. Exploiting the Crazy Frog's appeal (the ring tone is sold across Europe, the U.S. and Australia), the track looks set to top the British singles chart this week, a first...
...sure, no one is ever likely to deny the actuarial fact that staying lean and active is one of the best routes to a long life. Many studies point out that excess weight is associated not only with a lot of frequently cited dangers--diabetes, stroke, heart disease, sleep apnea and joint problems among them--but also with many less frequently cited ones, such as cancer. A recent study of 135 men, published in the American Heart Association (AHA) journal Circulation, seems to confirm this, acknowledging that while getting fit is associated with reducing a number of health risks, failing...
...Abdukadir Sattarov, an Andijan resident. Andijan could be a turning point in the resistance to Karimov's rule. Prominent local businessmen took up arms, and the revolt could also attract the involvement of battle-hardened Uzbek fighters from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan ( imu). "Andijan has in a single stroke revitalized the imu," says Alexey Malashenko of the Carnegie Moscow Center. A senior U.S. diplomat in Moscow says Karimov should "turn toward a course of reform and democratization." Asked if there was any hope of that happening, the diplomat replied: "I can't say that anyone is that optimistic about...