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...biggest chair in the world stands seven stories tall, weighs almost 23 tons and is found just to the left of the second traffic light in the tiny town of Manzano (pop. 7,000) in the northeastern corner of Italy near the Slovenian border. The red pine monument is not some avant-garde artistic statement. It's an oversize acknowledgment by the community of the industry that brought immense prosperity to Manzano and 10 small burgs around it over the past half-century. Known as the "chair triangle" (il triangolo della sedia), this district every year produces as many...
...Nigeria a country? It sounds like an easy problem on a school pop quiz. But for millions of Nigerians it is still a serious question - the question, in point of fact, at the core of their country's failings. The oil-rich nation, many Nigerians contend, will never "work" because, like so many troubled African countries, it is not a coherent whole but an artificial, colonial fusion of different cultures and ethnicities constantly pulling apart...
...officials let it be known that "any new ownership would face robust scrutiny." Put all those straws in the wind and you've got a flying haystack. "We're at a point here," says Kenneth Courtis, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia, "where if this is just a little pop it doesn't mean very much. But if it's the beginning of a trend...
...leave empty handed,” senior Lance Salsgiver said. Harvard took the lead in the fourth, scoring two runs on a Taylor Meehan double to take a 3-1 lead. Although Bears starting pitcher Chris Perez (1-1) avoided any further damage by forcing sophomore Matt Vance to pop up and strand two runners, the damage had been done.“We don’t have that many lefties,” said sophomore Shawn Haviland, “so if [Taylor] can come off the bench and hit off a powerful rightie like he did today...
...Piers is blasting a mix of Queen, AC/DC, classic rock and hip-hop. Somewhere on the screen there's a Word file, in which Piers is writing an essay for English class. "I usually finish my homework at school," he explains to a visitor, "but if not, I pop a book open on my lap in my room, and while the computer is loading, I'll do a problem or write a sentence. Then, while mail is loading, I do more. I get it done a little bit at a time...