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...prizes for guessing why the markets are jumpy. The winner of the first round, with 46.4% of the vote, was Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - universally known as Lula - the candidate of the Workers' Party, which has in the past flirted with repudiating Brazil's massive external debt. Lula, 56, a former labor-union leader running for the presidency for a fourth time, is likely to defeat Jose Serra, the candidate of the governing coalition, in the runoff on Oct.27. Following the economic catastrophes in Argentina and Uruguay, American bankers fear that the commitment of Latin America to the Washington...
...Numbers 16 candidates on a new Russian TV show will have a shot at winning a trip to space. The winner must pass cosmonaut medical tests and endure Survivor-style competitions for the chance at a week in orbit 75% is the rise in women over 65 who drink heavily compared with a decade ago, according to a new British study 130 million cell phones will be discarded each year by 2005, according to a study funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 140 new tree frog species were discovered during a survey of Sri Lanka's rain forests...
...Aside from the low contestant turnout, there was also the small problem of funding. There was none. Even the winner's gold and turquoise crown was bought on credit. "There are people with money in the community," notes Wangyal, "but they are not coming forward." He asked actor Richard Gere, who visited the Dalai Lama two weeks ago, for support. "He thought it was a joke, and when he stopped laughing, he wished me the best of luck...
They’ve got brain, but do they have game? FM brought together students with records of success in quiz shows and spelling and geography bees and pitted them against each other in a less academic endeavor: arm-wrestling. The winner of two out of three rounds takes the match. Let’s get ready to rumble...
...prestigious women’s college in 1953 to teach art history. While Roberts has received the lion’s share of media attention over the past week (including a large front-page photo in the Boston Herald), her supporting cast is no less impressive, including Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden, HBO’s Dominic West and teen favorites Kirsten Dunst and Julia Stiles. Mike Newell, best known for 1994’s Four Weddings and a Funeral and the 1997 mob flick Donnie Brasco, directs the film...