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...Yale has a very experienced team," Assistant Coach Guo Huang said. "Every fencer on their team has fenced eight to ten years...
Condoms may have proliferated lately, but not all of them are created equal. So says the March issue of Consumer Reports. Investigators checked 40 brands and 16,000 individual condoms for leakage and strength. When the prophylactics were filled with ten ounces of water, the test used by the U.S. Government, all brands managed to pass. But researchers got different results when they filled condoms with several quarts of air, the standard required by such countries as Denmark and Canada. Two types of condoms, LifeStyles Extra Strength with Nonoxynol-9 (a spermicide) and LifeStyles Nuda Plus, flunked the test...
What is known about this nimble entrepreneur is that he is a rich man, with a fortune of perhaps $100 million. He claims to own companies in Switzerland, Greece, the Middle East and Thailand, as well as ten or 15 firms in England. "There's many people behind me," he says expansively. "If I phone now for $40 million, tomorrow I see the $40 million in my pocket. From friends -- Saudi, gulf, Iraqi. That's all like a consortium. I am a front man." He is also a man gifted in the ways of global dealmaking, Swiss bank accounts...
...said India was willing to settle for a lesser amount than previously demanded because Union Carbide agreed to write the whole check right away. Last November the two sides had come close to agreeing on a settlement of $500 million, but that amount would have been paid out over ten years. Union Carbide, which has insisted that the leak was an act of sabotage by a disgruntled worker, will have no trouble raising the cash. The company had already set aside $200 million for the purpose, and its insurance will cover another $250 million. But the case...
...environment for research and study, as well as a unique aquatic encounter for the guests. "These animals can humble anyone," says trainer Christian Harris. "Guests may arrive at the dock complaining about something or other, but they get in the water with the dolphins and are smiling in about ten seconds...