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...weeding out of people who are considered bad influences. Even her downtime on the tour was carefully choreographed. When Spears' tour bus pulled into Pittsburgh, Pa., in March, the manager of the local Mad Mex restaurant didn't think twice about Spears' advance team's request: no flash photography, and her tables were not to be offered Red Bull or alcohol. Hard to argue with the results: a low-key meal devoid of drama. The most exciting thing the manager had to say was that Spears really liked the guac...
...TIME. His mission was to join Apache company, a detachment of 102 soldiers who had arrived a month earlier to establish a combat-operations post in the Tangi Valley, not far from Kabul. An incongruous strip of greenery between two bone-dry mountain ranges, the valley has become a flash point for the Afghan insurgency. By the time Ferguson got there, 26 men of Apache company had been wounded in the seven weeks since their arrival, and one had been killed in action--all from improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the deadly little bombs that lurk anywhere...
...Karnataka has come to be known as "the Yellow River of Bijapur," after China's Hwang Ho. While the Chinese river is infamous for its sudden changes in course, the Indian version, whose water many consider no longer fit for human consumption, is gaining notoriety for its unpredictable nature - flash floods one day, barely a trickle the next. "We need to find a way of storing the excess water and using it through the rest of the year," says A.K. Bajaj, Chairman of India's Central Water Commission. (Read "India's Floods: a Manmade Disaster...
Bystander Linda H. Chao ’10 could only call it a “hilarious dance fest,” but even many of the participants were unaware that the A.R.T. organized the “flash mob” as part of a new theatrical initiative. A.R.T. Artistic Fellow Allegra E. Libonati describes the event as “community outreach based on spontaneous moments of theatrical joy. It’s bending the definition of theater...
According to Webster, members of a flash mob “assemble in a public place, do something bizarre, and disperse.” Harvard is now part of a vibrant flash mob tradition, which includes the 4,000-person Silent Disco on the London underground in 2006, and the 5,000-person pillow fight in New York City...