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...THERE WERE MORE EUROPEAN DESCENDANTS -- including German, Irish, English, French, Dutch, Scots-Irish, Scottish, Swedish, Welsh and Danish, Portuguese, British and Swiss -- living in California than in any other state. New York led in the number of Italians, Poles and Russians; Minnesota in Norwegians; Texas in Czechs; Pennsylvania in Slovaks; and Ohio in Hungarians...
NASA has tried to choreograph every move, but these missions never go entirely as planned. "As we know when we do things for the first time in space, things can go wrong," says Swiss crew member Claude Nicollier, an astronaut from the European Space Agency who will be controlling a 50-ft.-long mechanical arm that will extend outward from Endeavour and move spacewalkers around the Hubble. Planners remain concerned about how fatigued the astronauts will become during their long stints working on the satellite. To be on the safe side, NASA added an extra day to the mission...
...export company and drives around in a Cadillac with a mobile phone. Wang Guoqing quit his job at the Bank of China in Xian three years ago and is now a multimillionaire retailer, restaurateur and real estate developer who wears Pierre Cardin suits, Italian shoes and a $2,000 Swiss watch...
MILAN: Milanese magistrates have given Italian taxpayers cause to cheer: by pressuring detainees in the country's widespread corruption scandal to yield their ill-gotten gains, they have recovered $63 million so far, most of it from Swiss bank accounts. This amount is clearly just the beginning. Duilio Poggiolini, a former Health Ministry official, for example, is accused of having taken $125 million in gold and silver ingots, gold rubles from the Czarist era, Krugerrands, diamonds and ancient Roman coins. Poggiolini is in jail in Naples; under questioning, his wife referred to the stash as "the savings of a lifetime...
...rather typical assortment of seafood, beef, chicken, and pasta. The Gourmet Delights section (each for $9.95) is far more tempting, and rightfully so. All of our entrees were amply-sized, served with perfect timing, and presented with eclat. The Baked Chicken Breast Florentine, stuffed with spinach, tomato and Swiss cheese, got mixed reviews. Says Adam, "The cheese sauce was quite creamy and the stuffing was strong, but not overbearing; I'd get it again." Says Trey, "The odor of the cheese was nauseating; as I was chewing it, I felt the cheese expanding in my mouth like bubble...