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...comings and goings of birds. On a tour of some of the remaining hotspots near local towns and villages, they dip their buzzing Geiger counters into one still-contaminated river where we'd later see kids wading ankle-deep. At day's end, instead of returning to Chelyabinsk to spend the night in the grim Soviet surrounds known as "Tank City" for its role in equipping the Red Army, we headed for a holiday camp Kabriov knew on the shores of the massive Lake Uvil'dui, not far from where the Mayak facility's waste is now stored, more...
...kidding. With the extra cash to spend, Barclays increased its bid for ABN Monday to just over $93 billion, with over a third of it offered in cash. That's more than its previous approach - the all-stock bid, agreed with ABN back in April, was worth around $90 billion - but still falls short of the $98 billion offered last week by a consortium of European banks led by Royal Bank of Scotland. That bid, backed by Spain's Santander and Belgian-Dutch group Fortis, is almost all in cash...
...Voldemort gets a political grip on the wider wizarding society, Ron, Harry and Hermione spend more and more time in hiding, at Grimmauld Place and elsewhere, and their story takes on some of the claustrophobia of Anne Frank's diary. In fact, the parallels to World War II are near-explicit: the Death Eaters agitate for the rounding up of Muggle-born wizards and "race traitors" the same way Jews and their sympathizers were rounded up under the Third Reich. The Ministry of Magic comes to resemble The Ministry of Truth from 1984, complete with a pseudo-Fascist bureaucracy...
...woman carried her son's urn. "You are responsible for killing my son," she told the three men. "I think jail is too good for you and I think you need to spend some time in a rehab facility, like my son, and maybe you will change your mind. My son's prepaid college ended up paying for his funeral...
...Qaeda has regrouped, we are less safe than we were before," Obama told 600 people who came to a "Meet the Candidate" event at an elementary school in Hampton. "As President I will spend all my time trying to figure out how to keep you safe... And I would fight on the right fronts...