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...temperatures dropped to record lows outside, freezing rail lines and bringing mass transport to a halt, Merkel has huddled with her political allies and opponents alike to hammer out a new approach. The shift comes after a raft of bad economic news, with the government now pressing ahead on a number of fronts. Merkel's coalition nearly doubled its stimulus package to €50 billion this week and is drafting plans for a €100 billion Germany Fund to provide credit for midsize businesses. And Commerzbank, Germany's second biggest bank, has said it is to be partly nationalized...
...athletes develop their own mix of style and technique. But Nadal's peculiarity is quantifiable. San Francisco?based tennis researcher John Yandell has used video-capture technology to record the topspin of Nadal's forehand. He found that Nadal's shot rotates at an average of 3,200 times a minute. Andre Agassi, one of the game's great shotmakers, generated 1,900 rotations per minute in his prime, and current world No. 2 Roger Federer, whose forehand is considered among the game's best, generates 2,700. As U.S. Davis Cup captain Patrick McEnroe has said of Nadal...
...effective than Federer's fluid style. Recently, though, the game's élite have started to come around. Swedish great Stefan Edberg has declared Nadal "unbeatable" by today's professionals, and Pete Sampras told reporters on Dec. 2 it may be Nadal, not Federer, who breaks his career-defining record of 14 major championships (Nadal has 5; Federer, five years older...
...future hold for music as a whole? If I tell my 7-year-old cousin when she's older, "Hey, you know Virgin?" She'll be like, "Yeah, I'm still a virgin." She's not going to know that at one point in time Virgin was a record store, because everything is changing. The future of the Black Eyed Peas is to wrestle with the state of the declining music industry and make content that lends itself to different formats...
...fine. Eichenaur was described by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as the owner of a "posh hunting ranch" in the small east Texas town of Bedias. The ranch, Circle E, advertises exotic hunts and charges $12,000 or more for a large white-tail buck with record-setting antlers that trophy hunters value...