Summary: Ron Pietila covered his left eye with his left hand. For a moment, the football office at Bonita Vista High became an optometry clinic. As he squinted hard with his bad right eye, the only thing clear was that he failed.
Title: Calculating Death Risk Makes Swedish Actuary Gold-Medal Curler
Summary: Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Olympic curler Anette Norberg says weighing the risk of death and disease for Folksam Group gives her an advantage that may result in her second gold medal at the Winter Games this month.
Title: Banker Liverpudlian Stew Disguises CDO Scraps as Tasty Morsels
Summary: Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Since its inception, the derivatives market has echoed the fairground hawkers’ call to “scream if you want to go faster.” Among the new derivatives, collateralized-debt obligations (CDOs) were particularly hot.
Title: The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Metro | Letters
Summary: Apropos “Want to be doc? Read up on Robin Cook” (November 27), the senseless advice given to medical students by health minister Surjya Kanta Mishra that they should read novels by Robin Cook to become better doctors underscores how out of touch our minister is from modern medicine.
Summary: In recent years, Jewish intellectuals have sometimes bemoaned the anti-Zionist views heard on college campuses, and among liberal intellectuals generally, but have failed to do much about it. But that may be changing.
Summary: Scholar Xiong Peiyun's new book is titled in English as China's New Revolution, but its Chinese title of Chongxin Faxian Shehui literally means rediscovery of civil society. To accurately portray what the book is about, I think the literary translation of rebuilding is much better suited than rediscovery.
Summary: Many have written about the romance of the outdoors. In keeping with that theme — and with an eye toward Valentine's Day next Sunday — the Statesman Journal contacted several outdoor recreation clubs and experts to offer their picks for the "best of" romantic outings in and around the Willamette Valley. Here are their picks.
Title: U-Va. students protest lack of credits for IB courses
Summary: On some days when Alexis Robertson was in the heavy-duty International Baccalaureate program at South Lakes High School in Fairfax County, she arrived at 7 a.m. and didn't leave until 8 p.m.
