Christie is set to join former Olympic javelin silver-medallist Steve Backley, two-time Olympic decathlon champion Daley Thompson and Katharine Merry, the Games 400m bronze medallist in 2000, as mentors for the British team leading up to London 2012.

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Lately, Chief Executive Steve Jobs hasn't been talking up the pricey silver box.

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He's also established himself as a silver screen regular: He will appear opposite Steve Carell in Walt Disney 's Dan in Real Life and alongside Kate Hudson in the upcoming Bachelor No. 2.

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He's also established himself as a silver screen regular: He will appear opposite Steve Carell in Walt Disney 's (nyse: DIS - news - people ) Dan in Real Life and alongside Kate Hudson in the upcoming Bachelor No. 2.

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But it would appear that one Thai Buddhist sect has decided, nay declared, that Steve Jobs is now half of a yak inhabiting a crystal and silver castle in the afterlife.

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Earlier Steve Lewis had finished a respectable sixth in the pole vault which was won by Australia's Steve Hooker in 5.90 metres with France's Romain Mesnil taking silver and Renaud Lavillenie bronze.

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"These results support the conclusion that bighead and silver carp have not yet become established in Minnesota, " said Steve Hirsch, director of the Ecological and Waters Division for the Department of Natural Resources.

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