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...upgrading his recommendation. Shell's stock isn't the bargain it was last winter after the reserves scandal broke, when it traded at around $6.30. Keeping it buoyant: plans for a big revamp of Shell's corporate structure and continuing rumors - dismissed by both sides - that France's Total might try to acquire the company. Losing Ground Control Ah, summertime, when the livin' is easy and Europe's airlines enjoy a holiday boom - right? Not exactly. Alitalia CEO Giancarlo Cimoli last week warned that the state-owned carrier faced collapse within 20 days unless unions agree to cost cuts...
...walls have been fashioned from giant old-fashioned olive vats, and which leads into open courtyards, scented gardens and a swimming pool overlooking the dramatic hills of southern Spain. The rooms have a rustic feel?if you're there in the summer, they are light and airy; in the winter they are warm with blazing fireplaces...
...walls have been fashioned from giant old-fashioned olive vats, and which leads into open courtyards, scented gardens and a swimming pool overlooking the dramatic hills of southern Spain. The rooms have a rustic feel - if you're there in the summer, they are light and airy; in the winter they are warm with blazing fireplaces. That's because the Trasierra is a hotel of balances. It strikes an important one between intimacy and privacy, being small enough for a big group to rent and big enough never to feel crowded. Another fine balance is between a smoothly managed hotel...
...snow line higher. They have also found that the snowmelt is starting earlier in spring, as many as four weeks earlier in the Sierra Nevada and the Cascades. And that likewise poses a problem. Why? Snow and ice are like natural dams that hold water back during the winter months, when the risk of flooding is highest, and then melt and release it during the dry months of summer when moisture is at a premium...
...illegal or prohibited drugs. Since its inception, WADA has been playing catch-up with better-informed and better-equipped athletes, some of whom can pay their way into the world of designer drugs created to evade detection. But the agency has started to close the gap. At the 2002 Winter Games, WADA tested the arriving athletes and surprised them with a more sophisticated test to detect darbopoeitin, a bioengineered hormone that dopes blood by increasing its oxygen content. On the basis of those results, the I.O.C. stripped three athletes of their eight medals...