The boots became a military secret, as generals envisioned soldiers running swiftly alongside armored vehicles. When declassified in 1994, the inventors dreamed of selling their invention to a lazy public, but instead the company went out of business last year
Being a star engineering student at the top-notch science university here wasn't enough to exempt Viktor Gordeyev from his physical education class.

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Japan's almost Captain Ahab-like fixation with the leviathans of the deep cause it great trouble in its international relations, but still it persists with its annual cull
Why does Japan insist on whaling?

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Peter, a financial adviser living in the UK, was taken aback when he got a gruff, no-nonsense call on his mobile last week. The voice at the other end told him not to send ?7,300 to Spain.

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