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...which was awarded the 2012 Summer Games five years ago - as it races to get ready. Learning from the last host city will be vital. While the sports on show in London will be different from those in Vancouver, the Canadian city's experience "gives us real food for thought," Sebastian Coe, chairman of London's organizing committee, told reporters ahead of the closing ceremony on Feb. 28. London, he said, would "use this information to ensure we stage a Games for everyone." (See the top 10 memorable moments of the Winter Olympics...
...Lusitania and the Titanic are often thought of as sister vessels; they in fact belonged to two separate owners, but the error is understandable. Both ships were huge: the Titanic was carrying 2,207 passengers and crew on the night it went down; the Lusitania had 1,949. The mortality figures were even closer, with a 68.7% death rate aboard the Titanic and 67.3% for the Lusitania. What's more, the ships sank just three years apart - the Titanic was claimed by an iceberg on April 14, 1912, and the Lusitania by a German U-Boat...
...when the infamous “That’s Why I Chose Yale...” video was released, I heard many Harvard students mention how very similar Harvard and Yale are—the video revealed to them a likeness between the two colleges they had not thought of before...
...began to pack up his books cheerfully beating what he thought was a 1 a.m. closing time. But that illusion was shattered when he reached the door...
...There are some comfy bean bag chairs on fourth floor of ILS,” Kim said. “I thought, if I have to spend the night here, that’s what will happen...