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Moments after they win the National Hockey League championship, the delirious members of the victorious team invariably pass the Stanley Cup around the ice and essentially make out with the silver trophy. It's pretty gross. After all, don't these guys know that during its 116-year history, liters of backwash have sloshed around the Cup as countless players and fans chugged champagne out of this glorified keg? Don't they know that at least one dog - and a Kentucky Derby-winning thoroughbred - have slurped chow from the Cup? And that both infants and inebriated adults have literally treated...
...assumption that U.S. car sales will only reach 10 million now and stay at that level in the future. However, union leaders argued that GM should keep the plants as a hedge against a robust recovery in new vehicle sales, possibly next year or the year after. "We know they're not going to [be at] 10 million units forever," said UAW vice president Cal Rapson, and the White House apparently relented...
...Unfortunately, as long as the plane or its black box are not recovered, it will be impossible to know what caused the disappearance of Air France Flight 447, says Gourguechon. "As frustrating as it is, we'll need more information before we can imagine any scenarios." But for Learmount, if a short-circuit fire is to blame, one thing is for sure. "We have to look here for the lessons we got from that [Swissair flight]," he says. "Airplanes should have heat and smoke detectors all over them ... so that if a fire started anywhere, you would know immediately...
...part of the airplane are the cabin crews' noses. There are areas where they've got smoke detectors - in the lavatories and in the cargo holds - but if one starts in an electrical circuit behind the cabin wall next to you, sitting there by the window, you don't know about it, because there are no smoke detectors there." (Read about the deadly 1998 Swissair crash...
...seems unlikely, then, that Sunday's elections will mark anything like a resurgence for benighted South Ossetia. "People don't believe that the elections were fair; they are losing faith," said Alan. "If nothing is done, and promises aren't delivered, then we will protest. I know eventually we will get what we want." Judging by past events, it will not come easily...