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...expiration dates, using the same types of automated programs deployed by credit-card companies and banks for that purpose. He jots down a number, then goes shopping. Usually he selects books, CDs and dvds for his collection, but he also claims to have bought such fanciful items as a box of 10,000 condoms. "You've got to find a site with good stuff, a bad system and stupid people," he advises. It's a pretty common combination. Today, in 15 minutes, he finds an amenable online stereo store in Hungary and a Canadian site selling books on nudist beaches...
...highlights of his posting was the day Fidel Castro introduced him to cigars. It was in September 1972, he recalls, at a trade fair in Santiago. The Cuban exhibitors needed refrigerators for their shrimp. Brabeck lent them some. When the fair opened, Castro came over with a box of smokes to say thank you. But the Cuban leader's biggest gift, Brabeck says, was to warn Allende of the problems Cuba had encountered when it nationalized milk. That gave Nestle valuable breathing space...
...Leone said. “We really struggled on the day.” Harvard was stifled by the Quakers defense and managed just one shot on goal the entire match. Penn went ahead after 15 minutes when, after a long cross into the box, Fuccello redirected a teammate’s shot from the left side of the box and beat Mann to the far post. The Quakers would have doubled the lead 20 minutes later had it not been for the left foot of Mann. Penn’s Kaitlin Campbell slipped past the Crimson back line...
...idea was born because so many fans left instructions before they died to have their ashes scattered on the playing field of La Bombonera (the "candy box," as the Boca football stadium in the city of Buenos Aires is known)," says Boca press officer Laura Acosta. Inspiration also came from a widespread custom of club fans of adorning the gravesites of relatives in other cemeteries with Boca-inspired decorations...
...movement has a base in the street," says Ali al-Mayali, a Sadrist member of parliament. "[It is] a base the other won't have - could never dream of having." In southern Iraq, political disputes are still more likely to be solved in the streets than at the ballot box...