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Anyway the Bluebirds really should have won at Bramall Lane last October, if that wasn't handball I don't know what is.

For Cardiff to remain unbeaten two factors must also fall into place: injuries must be avoided, I mean, if Jason Koumas comes down with lassa fever in the next few weeks any self-respecting pundit would start having second thoughts about the Bluebirds' destiny.

Secondly, top-scorer Cameron Jerome, has got to find his scoring boots again.

It seems churlish to be picky when the teenager has exceeded all expectations banging in 18 goals in total this season.

But when we note only two of these strikes have come in the last nine games and his recent skittishness in front of goal, there is genuine cause for concern.

Preston I fancy to blow up about now, they've been in the top six for a long time and there's always one side that starts falling away around now.

Anyway North End have injury problems: influential Scottish defender Callum Davidson is out for the rest of the season with a knee injury and 10-goal striker David Nugent is also ruled out giving them major headaches up front.

Wolves also have there own injury problem in defence, with Gabor Geypes, stretchered off in the bad loss at home to Sheffield Wednesday last weekend.

By the way, a result that put Cardiff's recent hard-earned victory against Wednesday somewhat into perspective.

I fancy Cardiff just to pip Dave Jones' former club to that all-important sixth place.

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...ba href=/anxiety/a/b among donors about the deterioration in the security environment in the country," Rahman said.Last year, Canada suspended its foreign aid program after suspected Maoists beat two of Canadian aid workers in western Nepal.

There have been media reports of Maoist guerrillas demanding payments from aid groups, and threatening to shut down development projects that fail to pay up.But Vaidya, the businessman, said he is confident the economy can bounce back - if peace comes.Citing a four-month cease-fire declared last year by the rebels, he said, "businesses viewed it as a window of opportunity.

Tourism resumed, hotels filled up.

It was business as usual.""Nepal's is a small economy," he noted, but pointed out that "it is sandwiched between two booming giants," India and China."If peace comes, we can hitch a ride with them."© 2006 The Associated Press.

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