• Kunskapsskolan Enskede, a school for 11- to 16-year-olds in a suburb of Stockholm, is a former office block into which classrooms, open-study spaces and two small lecture-theatres have been squeezed (pictured).

    ECONOMIST: Private education

  • EU's enlargement to include ten new member countries, which took place last May, was sold as a golden opportunity to expand a European zone of peace, prosperity and co-operation into the former Soviet block.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • Could we imagine what would have happened if the EU had not integrated the former European eastern block ?

    FORBES: Europe : Getting The Nobel Peace Prize And Preparing For The Nobel Prize In Economics?

  • Another source might be Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet-block countries, which have plenty of helicopters, but have so far offered few of them.

    ECONOMIST: Choppers are vital��and hard to find

  • "The bottom line is this: Food companies are ready and consumers will be able to buy fruit and grocery products over the New Year's holiday and beyond, " said John Block, former secretary of agriculture and current chief of the Food Distributors International.

    CNN: U.S. officials predict no Y2K food shortages

  • Other images show "The Castle, " a former five-story office block in central London that is now a home for more than 100 squatters -- and a site for raves.

    CNN: Making a 'squat' a home

  • He is one of several parties interested in a block of shares former Rangers chairman Chris Wright agreed to free up when the club came out of administration last year.

    BBC: QPR clinch USA link

  • And Martin Schulz, the president of the European Parliament, indicated that MEPs could seek to block the deal while former Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt said the cuts were "unthinkable" while much of Europe was in recession.

    BBC: UK Politics

  • Aberdeen rallied and former Scotland keeper Goram made a superb block from Eoin Jess after Winters had carved out the opening.

    BBC: Dons leave it late

  • Mr Giuliani, who would probably back Messrs Vallone or Hevesi over his former friend, might be able to block that route.

    ECONOMIST: The mayor��s race in New York: Life after Rudy | The

  • The SDLP is to try to block a bill that prevents former prisoners guilty of serious offences from holding posts as Stormont special advisers (SPADs).

    BBC: Dominic Bradley

  • Wearing a baggy, navy corduroy suit brightened by a turquoise Little Bear tie, Hirsh, 51, is holding court in his cinder-block-walled office in a former munitions factory in Toronto.

    FORBES: Toon in

  • Former commissioner Bowie Kuhn's authority to block an owner's efforts to sell off his best players for cash was upheld by a court, while Mr. Vincent was deemed to have overstepped when he tried to realign baseball's divisions.

    WSJ: Dodgers Owner Frank McCourt Files for Team's Bankruptcy

  • Leon Thompson looked certain to halt Coalisland's prospects by blasting in a goal but former Tyrone player Peter Donnelly somehow got back to block the pointblank effort on the goal-line.

    BBC: Dara Gallagher and Louis O'Neill

  • How times have changed: it was only ten years ago that the government decided to block the extradition of Augusto Pinochet, a former Chilean dictator, on the grounds of his supposed ill health.

    ECONOMIST: Britain, America and extradition: Trial of an alien | The

  • Philippe Redom, a 56-year-old rough sleeper and former chef, prefers to remain in his alcove outside an office block.

    ECONOMIST: Tolerance has its limits

  • Gdgt is the creation of Engadget founder Peter Rojas and former editor-in-chief (and current editor emeritus) Ryan Block.

    ENGADGET: Editor's Letter: Welcome back, gentlemen

  • Last week he even indicated that foreign judges and lawyers could play a limited role in the trial of former Khmer Rouge general Ta Mok--still the most public stumbling block on Phnom Penh's road to international legitimacy.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

  • There's simmering discontent at the increasing membership of the House of Lords and the former Liberal leader, Lord Steel of Aikwood, has put down a motion to block any more additions.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • The goal was tough on the home team, who would have levelled almost instantly but for a superb block by McCarthy, who smothered a shot from Owls substitute - and former Palace player - Tom Soares.

    BBC: Sheff Wed 2-2 Crystal Palace

  • Mr. LARRY SIMMS (Former Deputy, United States Justice Department): To say that an agency can block an investigation by refusing to give federal investigators here at the Office of Professional Responsibility the clearances they need is just astounding.

    NPR: NSA Operations Remain Opaque to Investigators

  • The spook and the policeman are brought together by the gruesome death of former film star, Mabel Morgan, who is found impaled on the railings outside the block of flats where she lives.

    ECONOMIST: New crime fiction

  • Against this block, probably, will be ranged the Democratic Left party and the party of former president Abdala Bucaram, deposed in February.

    ECONOMIST: Ecuador

  • Isis was founded in 1989 by Stanley Crooke, the former head of research at SmithKline Beckman, after he saw a technology called antisense that could block genes directly.

    FORBES: Degunker

  • Glentoran's Andy Smith, the former Sheffield United striker, fired across goal and wide before forcing goalkeeper Paul Gallacher into a good block after springing the offside trap.

    BBC: Scottish second string win

  • Mr Dalli, a former Maltese cabinet minister, has argued that he is the victim of a tobacco lobbying campaign to block tough new legislation - the Tobacco Directive - to make smoking less attractive.

    BBC: EU's Dalli insists on innocence in tobacco scandal

  • The prime minister has insisted former paymaster general Geoffrey Robinson is "not a pariah" and insisted no action was being taken to block his memoirs.

    BBC: News | UK Politics | Downing Street denies gagging Robinson

  • Tensions have risen further after Nick Clegg's former director of strategy warned of "consequences" for other political and parliamentary reforms if Tory MPs sought to block the Lords plans.

    BBC: UK Politics

  • "We assume that anytime he catches it on the block, it's two points, " said NYU-Poly coach Nolan Adams, a former Skyline Conference player and current eighth-grade special-education teacher in Kensington.

    WSJ: Prediction: This Won't End Well For NYU-Poly

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