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...beleaguered leaders have succeeded. Public spitting has reduced, malls smell like hospitals and Hong Kongers carry alcohol swabs like spare change. "My hands are peeling from washing them so much," says Dr. Tam Lai-shan, who treats SARS patients at the Prince of Wales Hospital. Kong keeps a bucket of the Health Department-advocated 1:99 bleach-and-water solution handy. Before heading indoors, she wipes down her shoes, clothes and bags. Then she showers, washes her hair and changes clothes. "If I go out three times a day, I have to do this three times a day," she says...
...unlikely to break out into a brawl. But if the industry thrives on young blood, it may need something more tempting than civilized behavior. As older punters literally die off, operators have to entice their children and grandchildren to carry on the bingo tradition. "We're keeping the bucket topped up," says Sowerby. "We need to get people to join earlier and keep them interested." One way is through advertising. In one television spot, a young woman abandons a night of sex for a game of bingo (doubtful). In another, four glamorous ladies with nicknames like Four Leaf (the lucky...
...worst from their participants. Bruises, black eyes as well as the proverbial blood, sweat and tears: all serve as testimonies to the raw passion that fuels many IM participants, those desperately grappling for that 100 points that will edge out an opposing dorm and clench the Yard Bucket or Straus Cup. This fearless dedication to the game is a major motivating force for Laurence Tai ’06. However, his sport of choice is not played on a court or a field. Rather, Tai’s is consumed with his position of “head IM rep?...
...sense of community fostered by intramurals is the reason for the venture. “The Yard Bucket is the goal, but the process of playing the games and people coming together is far more important...some people get to feel like they’re stars, especially when they get to playoffs,” Tai says. “You may never get to play in front of an audience of 30,000, but to win the IM championship in a sport, that means something...
...Quincy, you throw out your own napkin and toss your own silverware into a bucket o’ water to soak...