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...understood to have been in talks with Northern Rock about a deal just days before the Bank of England rescue. If there's no appetite for taking it on whole, Northern Rock could be broken up. And should no credible bids be forthcoming, it may even be forced to wind...
...finishes in only eight competitions.“It was a pretty good weekend for us all around,” co-ed captain Kyle Kovacs said.NEVINS TROPHYThe No. 5 co-eds sent their best team to the Nevins Trophy in Kings Point, N.Y., where a consistent northwest wind on Saturday and a lighter northeast breeze on Sunday provided the backdrop for Harvard to sail to a third-place finish overall. In A-division, the Crimson set the tone thanks to the efforts of skipper Kovacs and senior crew Elyse Dolbec, who together compiled just 73 points all weekend...
...found that college students burned twice as many calories playing an active video game in which they dodged and kicked for 30 minutes as they did walking on a treadmill. Studies have not yet shown how the new games measure up against a real session of, say, soccer or wind sprints...
Here's a mental exercise: picture a tropical paradise lost in an endless expanse of cerulean ocean. Glossy palm fronds twist in the temperate wind along immaculate, powder white beaches. Leathery sea turtles bob lazily offshore, and the light cacophony of birdsong accents the ambient sound of wind and waves...
...turns out there was only one Sattar. Any such would-be sheiks have a way of getting killed long before their names every make the news. Time and again sheiks whom U.S. military officials reach out to wind up dead. Sattar's knack for surviving repeated assassination attempts made him all the more important to American leaders. It's difficult to imagine anyone who can replace him in Ramadi, and no one like him has come on the scene elsewhere in Iraq...