Word: foamed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...born at a Rockets-Celtics game in February, where posters of Yao, made by Justin, his brother Austin and their friend, Eric Young, landed them a brief appearance on ESPN’s “SportsCenter.” Sensing an opportunity, Austin Wei decided to mass-produce foam likenesses, hoping to sell them at games and online...
...trio is hawking their wares on a new website—www.yaoheads.com—for anyone interested in purchasing a Yaohead. If you’ve had “large Chinese foam head” on your shopping list for awhile, but haven’t been able to check it off for lack of outlets, it’s your lucky...
Three young entrepreneurs, including Justin Y. Wei ’03, are cashing in by producing likenesses of Yao’s head made out of foam and selling them to eager Yao fans around the world. These novelties are worn on the hand—think the foam #1 finger...
...howling past on the expressway above, a stylishly ruffled figure picking through rubbish, which?in the opinion of gawking slum dwellers nearby?has already been stripped clean of anything valuable. "Very rich pickings," muses Swaffield, before plunking himself down in a discarded armchair that is hemorrhaging orange and yellow foam. "Awesome," he pronounces...
...Columbia Accident Investigation Board told TIME. "A lot of these [waivers] are legitimate--every launch is going to have them--but others are things you've learned to live with." The board is still weeks away from determining what technical failure caused Columbia's crash (investigators are examining foam that struck the left wing shortly after launch and super-hot gasses that entered the left wheel well during reentry). But the overuse of safety waivers has emerged as a sign that some blame may lie with NASA's approach to risk assessment. Many waivers, from snapped pins to broken foam...