• Our sports culture has a way of remembering champions and forgetting the rest, the only exceptions coming from those teams that have offered up dramatic moments in defeat (Ralph Branca serving up a home run ball to Bobby Thomson, Carlton Fisk pounding a homer off the foul pole to keep his team alive for one more day, and Bill Buckner booting a grounder).

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  • The recommendation is therefore no more than two drinks a day for a man, and no more than one for a woman, slightly less than current UK government guidelines.

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  • So it remains to be seen if this rather unusual public outburst against Mr Blair - and Mr Bush - will just cause a raised eyebrow for one day, or mark a rather more important ratcheting up of public concern in Britain about where Middle East policy is going.

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  • That means if a thousand people stamp one dollar a day for a year, the message would be seen more than 300 million times.

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  • Allow two days to climb up and one day to return for Nkungwe climbs, camping en route, although a more strenuous two-day option is also possible.

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  • The one time decent weather lingered for more than a day, base camp was so crowded that we had to wander around the moraine looking for another spot flat enough to put up a tent.

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  • In France, unions brought over 1m people onto the streets for a one-day strike, and a riot in Latvia over economic policy ended in more than 100 arrests.

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  • Each can be visited for only one hour a day and by a group of no more than eight people.

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  • Hakkinen tested the car in Rovaniemi on Wednesday and is planning one more day of practice before taking a break for the Christmas and New Year holidays.

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  • Following a heart-healthy diet also means drinking alcohol only in moderation no more than two drinks a day for men, and one a day for women.

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  • For one day, a message to management that dared trade Tom Terrific was more important than a win.

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  • According to a 2003 survey by the National Center for Health Statistics, one in five adults had consumed more than five drinks in a day during the previous year.

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  • Stephen Hanson, owner of New York's Blue Fin and Ruby Foo's, says that the monthly rent bill for a healthy restaurant is ideally no more than its sales on one busy day.

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  • Nel could conceivably be fit for the first of a possible three-match final on 10 February, but is more likely to be available when the Australians tour South Africa for a one-day series later that month.

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  • In regards to the second issue, which in the long run is probably the more important one, calls for a new and tighter regulation are becoming stronger by the day.

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  • But, to judge from Mr Sabbagh's book, most mathematicians would incline more towards Hilbert's view that a solution will one day be found for even the most difficult mathematical problem.

    ECONOMIST: Mathematics

  • Clark pointed out in 1999, cyberwarfare may one day give us a more humane way to fight wars (why, for example, bomb a train depot if you can just temporarily disable its computer networks?), so we shouldn't reject it out of hand.

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  • One recent initiative linked up more than a thousand machines in Canada to create a supercomputer for a day to tackle a problem that would have take years to complete if done on a single machine.

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  • The numbers are even more stark for high school students: in the 1990s, one of every 20 high school students smoked 10 or more cigarettes a day while today, only one out of 71 students smoke at that rate.

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  • Kennedy knew well that on Capitol Hill you tried for a full loaf, sometimes took half of one and, if necessary, you planted the flag, took a slice and came back another day for more.

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  • The Mercury award-winning band created the anthem for the BBC's Olympics coverage and performed their hit One Day Like This in front of a TV audience of more than 26 million at the Olympics closing ceremony.

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  • It has taken a while for the management to recognise that England's approach to one-day cricket is more tentative and shackled than most of their opponents, and while it is always possible to over-attack, it would be preferable to see them fail while trying to lift their game than to watch the batsmen prodding about and apparently frightened of failure.

    BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

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