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...event, students slipped into padded sumo suits to wrestle their peers while others sparred in a flimsy inflatable stadium. The entertainment at Yardfest also included an oversized Twister board, basketball hoops, and an assortment of games "that embrace the often competitive nature of the undergraduate population," said Campus Life Fellow Justin H. Haan ’05, an organizer...
...Jenny was caught. "I heard this explosion and I looked up and saw the roof suddenly sucked 30 m up into the air, spinning around and around, and above it the sky was a weird electric blue. I felt myself being sucked upward," she says. "It was like a twister.'' Karl thought the worst: "I heard this scream and then nothing. She's gone. She's been taken.'' Aden was sure he was going to die. "Don't let me go, Dad. Hold on,'' he begged, as he felt the wind pulling at him. For half an hour, the family...
...Grupo Financiero Bital, for $1.9 billion in 2002, and now that country is the fourth largest profit generator for HSBC globally (after the U.S., Britain and Hong Kong). The success in Mexico has been spurred by an unusual marketing campaign. Executives discovered that the HSBC name is a tongue twister in Spanish, so it launched ads to teach Mexicans how to pronounce the brand correctly. In one TV spot, a man in an HSBC tie leads a crowd at a soccer match in an H-S-B-C cheer...
...tour. Last year, there were three in the top 50. The breakout moment for Chinese women's tennis came in 2004 when a hitherto unknown Chinese duo struck doubles gold at the Athens Olympics. Even the tennis cognoscenti, who easily negotiated the tongue-twister names of the blond, leggy Russians who have come to dominate the tour in recent years, knew little about Sun Tiantian and Li Ting. Today, they have been joined by another pair, Zheng and her fellow Sichuan native Yan Zi, who captured three doubles titles last season. In singles competition, a baby-faced 20-year...
TORNADO WARNINGS MADE KING FRET about his crowd, as ominous streaks of gray and purple crossed the sky from the west. Radio bulletins told of a seven o'clock twister that picked up and dumped a stretch of asphalt on cars near Star City, Ark., killing seven people, and the first squalls hit Memphis half an hour later in slanted sheets of rain. Phone calls from the Lorraine to Lawson in Mason Temple verified that the crowd indeed was thin--perhaps fewer than 2,000 in the huge hall that had packed seven times that many for King's visit...