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That’s not exactly on Flyby’s list of things to do, but we were intrigued by the description of Jen, who was advertised as “a San Francisco born Taiwanese-American [who] has traveled all over the world from Australia to Hong Kong, talked his way into backstage concerts, mingled with celebrities, bungee-jumped in the jungle, and dived among sharks.” Naturally we had to check this out. Were you too shy to show up? No problem—Flyby’s got some of the highlights from Jen?...
...Indicted in San Diego in 1995 for money laundering and conspiracy to import tons of cocaine. His more creative means of transport included transferring the powder inside fire extinguishers and cans labeled CHILI PEPPERS...
...astrological signs often play a big role in reading national trends like jatropha. Ever looking for a hidden meaning to the seemingly incomprehensible actions of their leaders, some speculate that the Burmese word for "jatropha" sounds like an inversion of the name of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy may be the junta's most potent opposition. By inverting Suu Kyi's name, perhaps the superstitious junta believes that the kyet-suu plant will cause her democracy movement to wither away. (Read about Burma's ethnic minorities...
...districts surveyed this fall in a separate study, 69% said they had already counted at least half as many homeless students during the first few months of this academic year as they did in all of the last one. By Thanksgiving, 330 districts - including Las Vegas; Albuquerque, N.M.; and San Bernardino, Calif. - had equaled or surpassed the previous year's total. At these rates, 2008-09 could top the 2005-06 academic year, when Hurricane Katrina wrecked the Gulf Coast and 1 in 50 American children experienced homelessness, according to another report released this month. (See pictures of the bridge...
...Japan was very classical. Of course I knew [Balanchine’s, a famous choreographer’s] work, like Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Theme and Variations, the big stuff, but I had no idea how it should look, since I had never seen NYCB. I went first to San Francisco as an apprentice, and I got to learn “Rubies” and the “Emeralds corps” from Jewels, but I didn’t know how to be big, I didn’t know how to be dynamic, in the Balanchine...