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...pure physical toll of covering more than a hundred miles, day after day, for up to a month straight, that gives cycling much of its built-in drama. It is also what makes it so susceptible to the temptation of pharmaceutical assistance. Well-funded teams go to great lengths to enhance strength and endurance, through both legal and, in some cases, illegal means. Anti-doping officials try their best to keep up with the latest techniques for avoiding detection. This tension inevitably casts a shadow on the other top competitors who have not tested positive, both those who adamantly shun...
...crimes is the use of a weapon - usually a knife, sometimes a gun - casually wielded because the victim had looked askance at his killer (most victims are boys) or offered some other insignificant provocation. Last year 27 teenagers were murdered in London, many by other teenagers. This year's toll has already reached 20 and includes Robert Knox, an 18-year-old actor who plays a trainee wizard in the forthcoming Harry Potter movie, and who was reportedly killed defending his brother in a brawl over a stolen mobile phone. On July 1 hundreds of demonstrators marched through Islington, Hackney...
...which manufacturers of industrial and consumer goods raise prices to compensate for higher costs - and workers demand hefty pay increases so they can afford the rising cost of their household purchases. The risk is very real. Soaring prices for oil, raw materials and food have taken a heavy toll on Europe's inflation rate, which hit 4% in June - more than double what it was a year...
When she called the Walk Away Plan's toll-free number, she thought losing her home was inevitable. But Paul Helbert, who started the company last fall as an extension of his real estate--investing business, drafted a letter explaining her situation--an appeal based on the fact that banks, deluged with loans going awry, would like to avoid foreclosure too, since it can cost tens of thousands of dollars in legal and rehab fees to repossess and sell a house. "We wrote a beautiful distress letter together," says Helbert. "We told her story." He was eventually able to talk...
...some 10 others come home psychically scarred. The Pentagon has diagnosed roughly 40,000 troops with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) since 2003, and tens of thousands of others are dealing with it on their own or ultimately will be diagnosed. With the war taking such a heavy psychological toll, some inside the military are starting to ask if men and women who become mentally injured in the service of their country deserve the Purple Heart. To some traditionalists, the idea is absurd on its face, but it is not a theoretical debate -the Pentagon is now weighing a change...