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...Monday morning, the wild screaming from Kapp paid off, as Germany beat China 7-6. "You can call it Bavarian style," Kapp says of his drill sergeant-on-steroids rage. "To a skip, you can only get our emotional way with yelling. Because as a sweeper, you can put your emotion into the broom. I cannot check somebody like in hockey. So where to go with my emotions?" (See TIME's video "How They Train: Curling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Curling: Vancouver's Oddest Obsession | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...fashion industry has one thing to put its faith in, it is the Russian consumer's penchant for flair. "It's in the Russian character to be flashy. They'd never go for a simple style. They'd never spend lots of money to look like a street sweeper," says Ageyeva. "That will never change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion Disaster: Luxury Takes a Hit in Moscow | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...textbook tale: a foot in the door, some hard work and enterprise, and another American gets ahead. Twenty-two years after his lucky break, Zachery was a veteran firefighter earning north of $60,000. Like most firefighters, he always had a second job - delivering pizzas, driving a street sweeper, installing meters for the power company. Eventually he started his own business, demolishing houses condemned by the city. He supported an aging mother, a son in college, a new wife and a stately old house on a large lot with big trees in the center of Kansas City. The home cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House of Cards: The Faces Behind Foreclosures | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...Another employee, who preferred to remain anonymous, added that serving customers beat his old position as a factory sweeper. But, he added, "it's just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can McDonald's Alter the Dictionary? | 6/5/2007 | See Source »

...month-old enterprise intends to publish digests and anthologies of blogs, plus other up-to-the-moment writings. "Pamphlets after all are a grassroots phenomenon that were traditionally read by everyone in society from the lowliest street sweeper to the crowned heads of Europe," says Bellow, the president and editorial director of TNP. "They are the natural form for the expression of ideas, especially those that are marginal, unpopular or against the grain of current moral taste." Not to mention that people increasingly don't have the desire to buy pricey, time-consuming books, a fact that has not escaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bloggers in Print | 1/24/2007 | See Source »

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