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...Blink and you might just miss it. The blur of crisscrossing hands and zigzagging neon cups is probably the weirdest organized sport you've never heard of. Dubbed sport stacking, this rapid-fire competition could at first glance be mistaken for some peculiar carnival game. Players are tasked with arranging 12 lightweight plastic cups into various formations; a stacking kit comes with a touch-pad timer and cups that have a trio of holes in the bottom to reduce air resistance. At slower speeds, it seems easy enough: build up pyramids and break them down in a predetermined sequence...
...Kong has one paved road, a blink-and-you'll-miss-it dock and an inordinate number of Germans. The main activity for travelers in this border town is meeting other travelers. Most of the guesthouses and hostels in Koh Kong are run by Europeans and Australians (the proprietor and family usually live on-site) and are good for getting a drink, sitting in a hammock and chatting up your neighbor. They're also good for a cheap ($7 per night) room, if you can endure using a shared toilet. If not, I suggest you stay...
...meeting is just starting and will be over in the blink of an eye. But, it won't really be over, in terms of policy creation, for months. The pieces on the chess board may have moved a lot by then...
Malcolm Gladwell Outliers is the most recent book by the best-selling author of Blink and The Tipping Point Richard Nisbett's Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count is a devastating and persuasive refutation of all those who believe intellectual ability is fixed at birth. Few Americans have done as much to deepen our understanding of what it means to be human...
...take the flak personally. “That’s sort of what’s fun about the CEB—working our hardest, trying to prove people wrong about Harvard not being a fun place,” McFadden said.Mee, who somewhat damningly chose the resurrected Blink-182 as hisdream Yardfest artist, agreed that they were always hoping to improve on previous years. “The CEB is very young—we still have a ways to go to become properly institutionalized,” he said.So is there hope for a Rihanna-led Yardfest...