Word: stares
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This being rural India, the 9 a.m. bus to Top Station didn't leave until a quarter to 10. In that sweltering interim I had plenty of time to stare at the pane of glass that separated the driver from the passengers. It was adorned with a large, gaudy image of Jesus, and above the messiah's head?just where a halo ought to be?was a sign that read, disappointingly, "No Smoking." A pity. One garners plenty of saintly patience traveling on Indian buses; a few hard drags on a Marlboro Light would be even better...
...best characters, though, are Moneymaker and "Houston Sammy" Farha, a pro whose cultivated look of disreputability is an artistic achievement. In World Series' last episode, Moneymaker and Farha square off with $2.5 million stacked between them. They play quietly. They stare at each other. They lie. And the bigger liar wins. --Reported by Amy Lennard Goehner
...sticks to her practice. Last January, she happened to be in Saransk as rtt officials were showing off the Davis Cup, won in Paris a month earlier by Mikhail Youzhny. It was -25?C, Kalinichenko recalls, but some 8,000 people, including Zhbanova, gathered in the city square to stare at the cup, "so proud and patriotic they felt about our country's great victory." Zhbanova is more pragmatic. "The sight of that cup," she remembers, "made me even more eager to make it." Then she grabs her racket and gets back to work...
...mood in Monrovia. Nigerian peacekeepers had taken over checkpoints. Instead of gun-wielding teenagers begging for money, there were uniformed soldiers and white armored personal carriers. Less than an hour after the transfer of power, American warships sailed by the coast, and Liberians gathered on the beaches to stare. "I think they can see us from here," said Harry John, 24. "When Taylor leaves they will come." Two helicopters flew closer and the streets filled with cheers...
...Travelogue huddle over their desks like monks in a scriptorium. Their quills are superfast HP workstations in the center of an industrial-chic penthouse in Manhattan's trendy Tribeca neighborhood. Their manuscripts are digital scans of the body, illuminated into images so startlingly vivid that even scientists stop and stare. And the abbot here is an artist--self-taught in math, physics and business--named Alexander Tsiaras. Blurring the lines between science and art, the company's work resists easy categorization. "It's Fantastic Voyage meets the TIME-LIFE Books series," says Tsiaras, 49. He and his 25 employees take...