Word: aerially
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...Torino, China had already secured six medals, including gold in women's short-track speedskating, and looks almost certain to surpass its 2002 record. This week's action includes several sports in which China has, in a decade, transformed itself from newbie competitor to gold-medal contender, including freestyle aerial skiing, speedskating and other short-track skating events. Its success in the ice rink serves as a global warning that China has already emphatically arrived. "We have a national system, and the country has put a lot of effort into it," head skating coach Yao Bin told Time...
...basic Smithian economics: the market equilibrium price is far higher than other crops like coffee or soy. Washington’s “Apocalypse Now”-like burning of fields might work in areas with violent seditious guerrillas like Colombia’s FARC, but in Bolivia, aerial spraying destroys peoples’ opportunities to feed their families. Burning crops in distant Inca lands only prevents politicians from facing the real problem of demand, whether it is in Amsterdam’s dark alleys or Los Angeles’ celebrity pubs...
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass.—Boston College put on a spectacular aerial show on Thursday night for 7,149 fans at Conte Forum, while the Harvard men's basketball team was unable to even attain liftoff.In a display of superior athleticism that included alley-oops, breakaway dunks and a bevy of baskets from long range, the Eagles (8-2) ran away from an overmatched Harvard squad by a score of 89-55."It's probably the best forty minutes we've had all season," BC coach Al Skinner said. "We've won some ballgames, but we haven't played...
...Baby, and a $10 million budget, Chan assembled a starry cast: Taiwanese-Japanese icon Takeshi Kaneshiro, rising mainland actress Zhou Xun and Jacky Cheung, the one Heavenly King of Canto-pop who can really sing. But would audiences accept a big-budget Asian film without a flying kick or aerial swordfight? And was Chan?a Hong Konger best known for delicate, tightly-observed dramas such as Comrades, Almost a Love Story?the man to bring this improbable project...
...Predator is an unlikely star. In military terms, it is an unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV. It was first flown a decade ago and for years was armed with only an unsophisticated camera for intelligence gathering. After the fall of 2000, when Osama bin Laden was spotted in Afghanistan by an unarmed Predator, the U.S. government sped up a program to fit each aircraft with two Hellfire missiles. Awesome sounding but benign looking, the 27-ft.-long Predator is painted a dull gray and shaped like an upside-down spoon with wings. The drone is made of lightweight composite plastic...