Word: backyarders
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...those are immigrant values as well. It may be an imagined past or an idealized vision of the immigrant present, but there was something about the earnestness of West Point that fit Pae snugly. "People think that because my dad's an artist, that means he's in the backyard smoking weed or something," he says. "It's not like that. My parents are conservative. They have a hard-work ethic. Very Korean values...
...Jazeera's coverage stirred business problems in the network's own backyard long before its executives decided to go West. For the past nine years in the Middle East, al-Jazeera has faced an unofficial boycott led by Saudi Arabia, whose government was stung by criticism on al-Jazeera of its rulers. The English channel is apt to employ the sort of guerrilla business tactics that the Arabic channel has used. Initially limited to advertising from Qatari companies, the Arabic channel gradually attracted international brands and boosted its revenues threefold by, among other things, making deals with parent companies rather...
Annual injuries from backyard trampolines have nearly doubled in the past decade, according to researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children's Hospital. Nearly 75,000 kids now end up in emergency rooms each year because of such injuries, more than 2,000 of which are serious enough to require hospitalization...
Prior connections drew many of the women to this office in Lynn. Sage’s mother used to date one of the former booking agents, and Sage grew up playing in his backyard sandbox. Kaylie knew the sister of one of the guys who works for John. The women belonged to this world before they first started shedding their clothes...
...Canberra's newish national museum has an eclectic permanent collection, mixing exhibits that tell bits of the story so far. There are galleries devoted to indigenous peoples, British settlement, immigration, and 1960s suburbia - where you will find a display recreating the kitchen-and-backyard idyll that nurtured the baby boomers. Looming large in this time capsule is a petrol-powered, rotary-engine Victa lawnmower and, tucked inside a cupboard, a Sunbeam Mixmaster. The two products speak of a time of rising prosperity in which Australians aspired to a house on a quarter-acre block, children played in the backyard after...