Word: barcelona
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...skiing and food, filing the pages with rich detail like the one about raclette, a cheese you melt and pour over sliced potatoes and ham. Bucolic vistas of snowy woods and mountains soon give way to sunbathers when, at the end, Thompson swings through the south of France and Barcelona. This final leg includes encounters with a number of other cartoonists, like Louis Trondheim and Charles Burns, who contribute cameo sketches of their own. In spite of all this, Thompson continues to struggle with the alienation of travel. Then, at last he makes a happy connection that, even...
...BARCELONA Spaniards love accessories, and Burberry is their current favorite brand. The No. 1 seller is the leather shackle flap bag ($785), whose clasp and zipper pull are based on sailboat anchors...
...arena in which Iran's disabled have excelled. Unlike the U.S. or Germany, whose Paralympic successes mirror those of their regular Olympic teams, Iran's Paralympians consistently outperform their able-bodied counterparts. Iran climbed from a medal ranking of 37 out of 55 teams at the Barcelona Paralympic Games in 1992 to 16 out of 123 in Sydney. And it is the sitting-volleyball team that is the country's pride. Although Iran can be counted on to win medals in individual sports, such as shooting and power lifting, sitting volleyball is the only event?handicapped or otherwise?in which...
...diversify their superstar portfolios "like any good financial planner," says Paul Swangard, managing director of the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at the University of Oregon. "Nobody wants to be left hanging with the next Dan and Dave," he says of Reebok's infamous $25 million ad campaign for Barcelona in 1992, which played up the rivalry between decathletes Dan O'Brien and Dave Johnson. After six months of hype, Reebok yanked the ads within minutes of O'Brien's failing to qualify for the Olympic team...
...races this year is making fans yawn. F1 organizers fear Schumacher's superiority could dent TV viewership and jeopardize the huge amount of money--trade magazine Business F1 estimates it at $943 million--sponsors pay to have their logos plastered on cars and drivers' overalls. In Barcelona in May, for example, Schumacher led the race from beginning to end. Three weeks later he did the same in Nurburgring. And after winning at Silverstone in Britain last week, he figures to take another victory lap at the Grand Prix in Hockenheim, Germany, next Sunday. "It certainly does ruin the suspense," says...