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...Brenda L. Buttner’s desk at Fox News sits a broken motorcycle brake handle—a memento of a crash she suffered as a beginner rider—holding down her notes and scripts, which Buttner, a graduate of the class of 1983, keeps as a warning to herself of how easy it is to fall...
...Paradise or Vassal State? A few hours drive down the coastal road, I was sitting inside the dusty office of Sokun Travel and Tours when the lights cut out. "No good," said the woman behind the desk, looking into the dark street. "Every day, two or three times." We conducted the rest of our transaction by candlelight. Mourn Sokun, who owns the travel agency, says Sihanoukville, the current hub of south-coast tourism, can't keep up with the rush of tourists. The number of foreign visitors to the city shot up by 50% between 2006 and 2007, and infrastructure...
...doct, I can't go there," she said immediately. "It's too much money." She opened her purse, produced a letter from Blue Cross and pushed it across my desk. It was the kind of long, maundering insurance-company letter that instantly makes my eyes glaze over. I told Mattie not to worry. She had insurance, so probably she'd only have a co-pay - usually about...
...poster hangs over the desk of Kevin Plank, CEO of Under Armour, the red-hot athletic-apparel brand that has joined Nike, Adidas and New Balance as a major player on the market. Under Armour pitchman Eric Ogbogu, a former NFL lineman, is flexing his impressive pecs; underneath him, the tagline reads protect this house...
...sending crowds of people into the streets. A local journalist said he did not see any collapsed buildings, but "a woman living on the fourth floor was complaining about her apartment wall cracking up, and a man was lamenting over his computer that fell to the floor from the desk...