Greece's federal government had historically been a profligate spender. But the Olympics broke the bank. Government deficits rose every year after 1999, peaking at 7.5% of GDP in 2004, the year of the Olympics, thanks in large part to the €9 billion price tag for the Games. The cost of hosting the Games equalled roughly 5% of the annual GDP of the country.

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Hackers in Europe and China successfully broke into computers at nearly 2,500 companies and government agencies over the last 18 months in a coordinated global attack that exposed vast amounts of personal and corporate secrets to theft, according to a computer-security company that discovered the breach.

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From a cache of old Roman gold and silver coins to an original copy of the American Declaration of Independence, six great accidental finds that have yielded a fortune

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