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...tech titan Asus has mastered the art of making teensy, high-performance PCs. The 1000HE ($530) has a zippier processor than its rivals (making for smooth HD video playback) and a 9.5-hour battery. But that all adds bulk - at 3.2 lb (1.5 kg), it's one of the heaviest netbooks around. www.asus.com...
...Scotland's alcohol-misuse problem is shocking," said Nicola Sturgeon, Health Secretary to Scotland's devolved government. And shockingly expensive, costing Scotland $3.2 billion a year in lost productivity and additional expenditure for health services, the police and other public-sector institutions. Scots are the world's eighth-heaviest drinkers, and a casual visitor to Glasgow could easily conclude that they top the league in public Bacchanalian drunkenness. (See pictures of whisky-making in Scotland...
...Claire McCaskill, co-chair of the Obama campaign, was reached by phone on her way to cast her vote in Kirkwood, a St. Louis suburb. She said she had been on the phone all morning collecting reports of huge turnout in Democratic and Republican precincts alike. Reports of the heaviest voting, she said, came from urban areas, and "that's great news...
...offensive line dominated the line of scrimmage, pushing around a diminutive defensive line whose heaviest player weighed 250 pounds, a full 25 pounds lighter than the Crimson’s smallest lineman...
...annual cross-country trek and found myself laughing out loud in pure delight at Levy’s work while my thesis reading sat beside me, neglected. And in the hours I spent in the car, I rediscovered the sort of unpretentious writing that can distill even the heaviest themes into what is simply a good book.—Emma M. Lind