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...That shock is just starting to hit the world's fourth-biggest oil producer, Iran. The price crash has pummeled Iran's foreign earnings, 85% of which come from its shipments of 3.8 million barrels of oil a day. Last summer the country was garnering about $300 million a month from oil and natural gas. This month it's likely to make just $100 million, according to Saeed Leylaz, an economist in Tehran who edits the business newspaper Sarmayeh...
...bowler, Shane Warne, who managed to do things with a cricket ball that nobody had imagined for decades. But Warnie is retired from test cricket, his pudgy frame and perpetually highlighted hair now to be found in the TV commentary box. In the first two tests of this southern summer, Australia's aging warhorses and green youngsters were outplayed by a South African team that was hungrier and smarter...
...That day may be some way off. As part of the campaign to rebrand Nadal, Nike announced last summer that the player would wear a new line of attire at the U.S. Open. Nadal normally wears knee-length shorts and a sleeveless shirt - a trademark pirate costume loved by fans, which looks ridiculous on anything other than Nadal's muscled body. Nike said the new line would be "more mature" and appeal to an older tennis-playing public. But only days before the tournament began, the clothes were withdrawn because Nadal said he felt uncomfortable...
...Jones has been holed up at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where he led a program to redefine America's energy policy. At the same time, Congress asked Jones to assess the training of Iraqi forces, a key to the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country. By last summer, says a close Obama aide, "General Jones was already under consideration for a top job in the Administration...
...truth, Jobs looked alarmingly thin in his appearances at Apple events during the summer and has not been seen in public lately. On Dec. 30, the gadget site Gizmodo, quoting an inside source, claimed Jobs was too ill to deliver the speech and his health was "rapidly declining," predicting "the inevitable news" would come in the spring...