Word: broking
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...None of the Pontiac heritage had rubbed off on the Sunbird. After the car saw several years of gentle driving, mostly by my wife, an interior door handle popped off. The fan knob went kaput, and the radio played only intermittently. The final indignity was when the hood release broke, making it difficult to get to the generally well-running engine to add oil or coolant. (See the 12 most important cars of all time...
...jinx comes in the prison-garbed form of Michael Vick. When Vick appeared on the cover of Madden 2004, he was heralded as the future of the game, a rocket-armed QB equally capable of carving up defenses with his legs. But within days of earning the cover, Vick broke his leg in a preseason game. He is currently serving a 23-month federal prison sentence for his role in a dogfighting operation...
After Steven Purugganan broke the world record at last year's championship by up- and down-stacking six pyramids in just over six seconds, the 11-year-old from Longmeadow, Mass., garnered an endorsement deal from McDonald's. And when he clocked in at 5.93 sec. at a regional tournament in January, fellow stackers started sending him YouTube videos of their routines, asking for his advice. "I tell them to keep a light grip, that you need to practice like any other sport, working to get faster every single day," he says...
...some 110,000 civilians who have poured out of the war zone - a fast-shrinking sliver of land still under Tiger control - since April 20 when the army broke through a key embankment in an effort to bring an end to the 25-year conflict with the ethnic separatists...
...been closed for more than six months now. It ran on tuition fees and government subsidies, but both have vanished. Most of the college's students are the children of civil servants who have to live on salaries of $100 a month. The government is too broke to inject funds into the institution, which was once the envy of students all over Africa. Justifying his beer, Majiri says, "At least I am not into thievery, like most of my colleagues, who are subsidizing their income that way." (See pictures from the long reign of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe...