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...office receipts account for 28% and corporate and private sponsorship another 10%. ENO is also modernizing its home base, the London Coliseum, at an expected cost of €59 million. In 1997, in addition to regular funding, ace gave ENO a "stabilization" grant of €13 million to wipe out its debts. In 2002, ENO applied to ace to go back into stabilization, and asked for more money...
This scenario never actually occurred. It never could have, for two reasons. First: because the Harvard women’s hockey team is too classy to demean its opponents in such a way. Second: because even playing on their weaker sides, Harvard would wipe the ice with BU. They’d probably win with the butts of their sticks...
...Khan. Those he encounters along the way are sure he's crazy, and Stewart, wrestling with ill-tempered Mongolian horses and occasionally incompetent guides, is tempted to agree. But he ultimately achieves his goal, carried along by the endless promise of the Mongolian landscape, the plains and hills that wipe away time and leave only the eternal present, "so wonderful to me that I could think of nothing else...
...frequent Palestinian suicide bombings, like the twin attacks in Tel Aviv that claimed 22 lives on Jan. 5 - have snapped Israelis back into the mixture of nationalism and fear at the root of Zionism. What used to be a minority view - the conviction that Israel's enemies mean to wipe it off the map and that to make peace is to invite extinction - is now mainstream thinking. It can be measured in the high level of response to call-ups for army reserve duty by ordinary Israelis, and it's erased almost entirely any lingering support for the concessions offered...
...malaria can be as deadly as artillery. So when China waged a brief war against Vietnam in 1979, Beijing issued its troops a crude anti-malarial pill based on a traditional Chinese medicine?and it worked. Today, hopes are high that a similar folk-remedy-derived treatment might help wipe out the disease. Scientists at the Mekong Malaria Symposium, held last week in Cambodia, announced that early clinical trials of the new drug Artekin eradicated malaria parasites in 95% to 100% of patients tested. And Artekin costs just $1.20 per dose, one-third the price of today's treatments...