The Velodrome cycling track will be converted into VeloPark, which, with the addition of a mountain bike course and road-cycle circuit, will be open for community and club sports.

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Observers of America's Federal Reserve picked over the minutes of November's Federal Open Market Committee meeting and predicted that the central bank will soon end its cycle of interest-rate rises.

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Dazed but without any broken bones, Cornell flipped open his cell phone and madly dialed for help--not for himself, but for his Exile cycle.

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