And what this man did in state tournament play, taking a 1A size school and competing against 2A and 3-A schools and being highly competitive, is simply unreal," said Bagwell who played JV and freshman basketball for Pardue as well as baseball for him from 1959 to 1961 at Hendersonville. And what this man did in state tournament play, taking a 1A size school and competing against 2A and 3-A schools and being highly competitive, is simply unreal," said Bagwell who played JV and freshman...

Soaring unemployment, overstretched social services, rising crime, even rioting in the streets? Not in Spain. A steep decline could trigger social conflict, which so far has been minimal perhaps because about three-fourths of immigrants come from Latin American and European countries with languages and culture similar to Spain's. They do backbreaking agricultural labor and take minimum-wage positions in restaurants and hotels. A deadly 2004 train bombing in Madrid, blamed on a Moroccan-led...

Each film carries a "presented by" credit for Sheng Xiaodong, head of the Jian Group, which has a net asset value of $490 million since it began producing biofuels from corn in 2003, a company statement said. There are many places to invest in China's growing economy, but the capital investment in media is not that high relative to the risk of, say, real estate," Lee said. Managing director Elvis Lee said the company -- begun in March as a wholly-owned subsidiary of alternative energy...