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...lack of equality bother them, F1 fans embrace the technological warfare that defines their sport. For this year's championship, each of the leading teams has spent around $300 million on building and fine-tuning its cars. Behind the drivers is a network of boffins - engineers, mechanics, wind-tunnel experts - charged with analyzing the performance of every system of last year's model with the goal of making the new one faster. Inevitably, the high stakes have led to skulduggery. The sport's governing body, the Paris-based International Automobile Federation (FIA), last year fined McLaren a record $100 million...
...Brazil, homicide rates are tumbling. "For the first time in Brazilian history we have had three years in which the measures of fatal violence have fallen," says Julio Jacobo Waiselfisz, author of the Violence Map, a nationwide study of homicide rates. "There is light at the end of the tunnel...
...English Heritage, which manages the site, sees the situation as intolerable. But a much-anticipated solution recently collapsed when Britain's Department for Transport decided it was too expensive. English Heritage had proposed rerouting a 1.3-mile-long stretch of the A303 into a tunnel, rerouting the A344 well away from the circle, and building a $134 million state-of-the-art visitors center in the town of Amesbury, two miles away, linked by train to within walking distance of the stones. But in the eight years it took to win planning approval for the scheme, the cost...
...lies with theorange picnic basket that somehow alsosurvives the storm.Memory, by Philippe GrimbertA black and white photograph depictsa mystery person, pail in hand, walkingaway from the potential reader over acovered bridge towards a sunny day. Thebook’s cover offers extensive metaphoricalpossibilities: the light at the end ofthe tunnel! Traversing the bridge of life!Receding into the blur of memory! However,the actual subject-matter of “Memory”remains rather mysterious. At leastwe can rest assured that the book is notonly a bestseller in France and a winnerof the Prix Goncourt, but also the winnerof...
...tendency is to focus on high-scoring forward players and I think St. Lawrence was looking to take out our top forwards like [juniors Jenny Brine] and Sarah Vaillancourt,” Cahow said. “I was able to see daylight at the end of the tunnel. I just took it and was looking actually to get a rebound, but it went in the back of the net so I’ll take it.”Harvard was undefeated in the ECAC this year, plowing through the regular season with a 22-0-0 record before...