On Oct. 11, 1998, a freight train struck and killed a man working on a Union Pacific track bed in Illinois.

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She toured the Olympic track draped in a Union Jack -- and taking the other heptathlon competitors along with her for the ride.

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It is not (yet) formally off track in its joint European Union-International Monetary Fund adjustment programme, and there's no big "forcing" event coming up to concentrate their minds.

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