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Looking relaxed and raring to go after spending three days at home with his wife Rachael, his daughter Holly and his new son Corey, he must be wondering what Nasser Hussain, the last captain to lead an England side in India, ever felt the need to shout about.

Article continues Whatever happens in the first one-day international today, the pressure over the next few days will all be on India.

The media have not let them forget their capitulation at the Wankhede - they have been called everything from chokers to prima donnas - and nothing less than a crunching victory in this series will appease those who are still fuming about the defeat to what one newspaper called "frankly, an England B team".Dravid has been appointed as captain until next year's World Cup, which should in theory provide the Indian game with some much needed stability after the ousting of Sourav Ganguly.

But it will also channel the scrutiny that exists around every corner.

The critics here need little excuse, and Dravid's loss of temper was uncharacteristic enough to suggest that they may already be getting to him.These are soul-searching times.

India's one-day series win in Pakistan helped make up for defeat in the Tests, but the drawn series with England has led to a fresh bout of introspection.

Dravid was one of six senior Indian cricketers past and present to take part in a five-hour meeting on Sunday, the ostensible aim of which was to identify ways of improving the Indian game.Others may say ...

...ba href=/anxiety/a/b about the next hurricane season in the Gulf of Mexico, were expected to limit any price decline.

Some analysts believe gasoline prices could climb as high as US$3 a gallon this summer, though that assumes some significant disruptions at refineries, or difficulty in getting fuel to markets.

On Monday, militants in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta released their last remaining foreign hostages _ two Americans and one Briton _ more than five weeks after the oil-industry workers were kidnapped.

The militants took nine foreign oil workers hostage Feb.

18 from a barge owned by Houston-based oil services company Willbros Group Inc., which was laying pipeline in the delta for Royal Dutch Shell PLC.

The group released six of the captives after 12 days in captivity.

The militants are behind a spate of attacks that have cut Nigeria's oil exports by more than 20 percent.

On Saturday, they said they killed three soldiers in fresh clashes near a key natural gas plant run by Shell.

Shell said there was no impact on the gas plant.

Iran, the No.

2 oil producer in OPEC, also remains a potential source of concern.

It has been referred to the U.N.

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To see if weight training might help boost patients' quality of life, researchers recruited 86 women who had completed successful treatment of breast cancer.

Half the women were assigned to an exercise group.

For three months they met twice a week with personal fitness trainer to develop a weightlifting regimen.

They were taught how to perform nine common weight-based exercises using free weights and resistance machines to work the muscles of their chest, back, shoulders, arms, buttocks, hips and thighs.

They were then encouraged to follow it for another three months.

The second group had no weight training.

Researchers assessed the women's body fat, weight, bone density and upper and lower body strength, among other measurements.

And they asked the women about daily problems and their quality of life, such as state of mind and satisfaction with relationships.

The women in the exercise group said they felt they had more strength, speed and self-confidence as a result of the workouts.

It appears the weightlifting helped them regain a feeling of control of their bodies, researchers said.

Researchers also found that women who did strength training increased their infection-fighting T-cell levels.

And they had better upper-body strength, less fatigue and better quality of life compared with those who didn't exercise.

The women who trained with weights had increases in lean muscle mass, compared with those who did not.

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