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...these frigid simians still have a little thawing out to do. Luckily, they’ve got plenty of time. Alex Turner, lead vocalist and guitarist, is still only 19, and none of his three bandmates have much more than a year on him. Despite this, the sensations from Sheffield have released a self-assured debut with style to spare, even if it’s not the genre-defining album many across the pond wanted...
Countless single women are tortured by the thought that their prime childbearing years are ticking away. A researcher from Britain's University of Sheffield has developed a test that may be able to tell you just how much time you have left. The test measures blood levels of three hormones that determine when you're nearing menopause--and how many of your viable eggs remain. U.K.-based Biofusion plans to release the kit in January...
Coke's quest of cool began with the Designers Republic, based in Sheffield, England, which dreamed up the Love Being model. Studios from Tokyo, São Paulo, Brazil, and Johannesburg, South Africa, came up with other variations...
...HORSEPOWER. In addition to a dwindling membership (around 250,000, about the same as Labour) with an average age above 60, the Tories have lost so many parliamentary seats to Labour that they have only one M.P. in Scotland, just 12 out of 161 English seats north of Sheffield, and none in major cities like Manchester and Leeds. The party is notably floundering among women, professionals and young people. Maybe its strength in local government - an important feeder for national politics - and its 36 new seats won in May's general election can rev up momentum. But the way parliamentary...
...Real Madrid and Manchester United between them last week kicked their way through Hong Kong, Bangkok, Tokyo and Beijing, racking up multimillion-dollar appearance fees along the way. Lesser teams, too, are parading before Asian fans. Rotterdam's Feyenoord went to work in Nanjing late last month, and even Sheffield United, from England's second division of clubs, rounded off its own three-game tour of China last week. The team's big attraction? Veteran Chinese star Hao Haidong. "We're looking at [China] as a long-term enterprise," says Terry Robinson, Sheffield United's vice chairman. The perception...