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A trauma on the right shoulder was the reason for Markos Baghdatis to leave ingloriously the Open championship of Australia. During his game with Lleyton Hewitt he fought for two sets which he lost from his opponent with 0:6 and 2:4, results which speak for themselves showing the overworking of the tennis player. During the second set Baghdatis tried to outplay Hewitt by changing his game, however he didn’t manage to make up for the loss. Even before the set started the Cypriot asked for the help of his physiotherapist.

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Panic, nightmares at night, depression, desperation, aggressive behavior. This is the condition of many American soldiers after their return from Afghanistan and Iraq. These symptoms of a post war stress are known to humanity since the hoary antiquity and the ancient Greeks have found the cure for it at that time. It is called “catharsis” and means the process in which the literary drama purifies the soul. Its therapeutic effect is indisputable in the past 2000 years and until present times.

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Four types of chocolate widely spread on the Greek market contain dangerous allergens, announced the National food inspection agency. After an inspection made by the agency in cooperation with the central laboratory was determined that the products contain the ingredient “casein”, which was not listed on the package. According to the current law if producers do not list on the label specifically and completely the ingredients, the lot of the product has to be pulled out of the market.

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Marcos Baghdatis is in a great shape in the beginning of the year. Apart from the statements of the tennis player that the number one goal for his are not the successes, but the hard practices which will put him back in good physical shape after a long period of traumas, the successes do not leave the tennis player for a single moment. The tennis, which Baghdatis shows at the tennis court is definitely much more that just a hard practice after the international Sydney tournament brought him….. a cup.

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Greeks spend about 1,2 billion euro per year in order to drink their coffee outside with friends in a café or in a plastic cup in the hand on the street. The commerce with coffee turns out to be a sector which helps for the positive growth of the economy by registering an increase of 15% to 18% each year. There is a war starting on the coffee market in Greece after the big players in the business started to lower the prices of certain types of coffee.