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Snowboarding starts with the Flying Tomato. "Right now, he's up here," says U.S. half-pipe coach Bud Keene of White, hand raised high above his head. "Rarefied air." A prodigy, White would outrun the adults on Southern California's Big Bear Mountain--going backward. His consecutive 1080s (three complete rotations in the air, the toughest trick in the sport) secured his win last week. Afterward, White playfully set his sights on U.S. figure skater Sasha Cohen ("I hope she dates gold medalists") and talked of a rendezvous with the Summer Olympics if skateboarding, the other action sport in which...
...parent company.“Sinopec is essentially a contractor, whereas CNPC actually owns the lead shares in the consortium that runs Sudan’s oil patch,” Goodman wrote. Sinopec is in the process of building a pipeline from the Melut Basin of southern Sudan to a Red Sea tanker terminal, according to an article by Goodman in the Washington Post from December 2004. A report from Reuters in October 2004 said that Sinopec bought a six percent share of two oil blocks in the eastern Upper Nile region of Sudan.Yale, in explaining its decision...
...falling into the same chasm, however, as the unpaid billions owed to Russia by Saddam Hussein's regime, and other Moscow-backed rogue regimes. Russia risks ending up unpaid, friendless - and facing a volatile nuclear neighbor, connected to terrorist groups and armed with Russian weapons, right on her unstable southern border. Some return to glory, indeed...
...Should war return, its impact will be severe?but probably less so on the southern beaches that are Sri Lanka's main attraction. Foreign aid and investment will fall, as will tourist numbers. But Sri Lanka's economy kept growing during the earlier years of war, and is in better shape today than it was, now that a collection of boutique hotels has made the island the favored destination of the long-haul travel crowd. Although tourists may continue to enjoy Sri Lanka, if war is renewed, those who live there year-round will continue to have their aspirations...
...Lincoln Lawyer” can be described as the anti-John Grisham novel. All those idealistic, Wonderbread-eating young lawyers and greedy, cigarette-manufacturing corporations are nowhere to be found—they both must be strictly Southern things...