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...October, the property developer Henderson Land was derided for assigning whimsical numbers to the top levels of a luxury apartment building in order to make them accord with local numerology, which holds that 6 and 8 are auspicious. Record prices were paid for so-called 68th-floor and 88th-floor duplexes when in reality they were on the 43rd and 44th floors and the 45th and 46th floors respectively. Shortly after, bloggers chortled and tabloids leered over the case of a 55-year-old bulldozer operator who was accused of having sex with a 19-year-old girl on nine...
...three goals all came in the final twenty minutes, with the third coming from the Quakers in the 81st minute to cut its deficit to 2-1. In the next nine minutes, Penn unleashed four shot attempts on Mann, with the last one landing on net in the 88th minute. The shot came from right outside the box, but as it headed toward the top of the cage, Mann lunged out and deflected it off goal, securing the game and making one of the top saves in the Ivies this year. “The ball was ripped from...
...contrast Gandhi and Singh cut with the typical Indian politician is striking. India regularly comes in the bottom half of Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, tied with Moldova and Mali at 88th out of 158 countries last year. This January, in its Mood of the Nation issue, the weekly newsmagazine India Today found less than half of those surveyed expressed any trust in their MPs. So low is India's opinion of its political leaders, in fact, that a new college, the M.I.T. School of Government, opened last September in the central city of Pune with...
...work so perfectly and with such precise timing that we should expect them to fail catastrophically every 100 missions or so. That's why NASA must be America's most optimistic government agency, that it can keep muscling forward in the face of such odds. Columbia was the 88th mission since the Challenger was lost in January 1986--one flight lost to the cold, one perhaps to the heat...
...explored Argentine tangos and Appalachian fiddle ditties, along with Mozart and Bach. On his newest--and 88th!--album, Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon, the world-renowned cellist collaborates with musicians along the ancient trade route that linked China and the West. Yo-Yo Ma spoke with TIME's Josh Tyrangiel from his home in Cambridge, Mass...