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...after 26 years and 26 boyfriends, Broussard began to notice that the best part of breaking up with a flame was talking about breaking up with a flame—and that a compilation of dating stories could be pretty interesting. Remembering back to the cheesy pick-up line, she thought an A to Z format might be a good way to organize...
...world's third largest manufacturer of drams behind Samsung of South Korea and U.S. chipmaker Micron. Analysts predict that the semiconductor industry will grow next year and most of 2005 before the cycle turns down again. But this recovery, if it comes, will burn on a lower flame; growth rates are lower than in the early '90s, and most analysts believe those lower rates are here to stay. Schumacher, for one, understands that the rules of the road have changed. "The semiconductor industry will not succeed in achieving the growth rates observed in the past just with faster processors...
...only stopped because the man looked so incongruous, running along the bank of a drainage canal, wearing a flowing black dishdash and holding aloft a flaming torch like some athlete carrying the Olympic flame. I should have known better than to get out of the car for a closer look: all the other vehicles on the fly-over into the western Baghdad district of Al-Ghadeer were speeding away. Mohammed, my driver/translator, shouted at me to stop, but I assumed he was warning me about the approaching traffic. I didn't sense danger until I approached the green verge alongside...
...them flying off in random directions. The big artillery shells went off with ground-shaking booms, and the shockwaves pressed me into the turf. But much more frightening were the anti-aircraft shells, which fizzed about - some along the ground, some in the air - in lethal balls of orange flame. A few of the rockets took off with a great hiss, like supercharged Chinese fireworks...
Unwilling to watch another baseball season go by, Wahlberg decided to approach Walsh. Though the flame-throwing righty was not officially recruited by the Harvard baseball program out of high school, Walsh maintains that he was aware of him, and had hoped that he would attempt the switch. Offered a spot on the Crimson nine if he wanted it, Wahlberg quickly made the decision to play baseball—and only baseball...