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...team, and I think they’re putting a little more support into it,” Smith said. “The team I keep waiting for is Russia. They’ve got hockey over there, so were just kind of waiting for the sport to gear up. I think they’re on the verge of being a contender...
...known in the trade. And it's a far cry from the grand vision painted by promoters at the height of the tech-investing bubble. We were all supposed to be surfing the Net on cell phones with video screens and ordering everything from airline tickets to stereo gear for delivery to our homes or offices. Instead m-commerce is growing fastest in a direction that is at once more modest and more useful to a broad range of consumers and retail businesses...
...Then it's down to business. The plane takes off and Li discovers the landing gear won't lower: the plot develops from this seemingly minor detail. The crew wrestles with the mechanism for 10 minutes before the plane is ordered to turn back with only two hours' worth of fuel and 137 passengers on board. On the ground in Beijing, controller Liu Yuan (You Yong) arrives, chain-smokes, swigs coffee and looks suitably tormented. Prodded by Liu, the pilot tries multiple maneuvers, including a touch-and-go landing to bounce the apparatus down, and a manual release...
...same is true for many other sports. Even the men’s basketball team, which has yet to start its season, currently holds multi-hour practices during the week to prepare for the upcoming slate of games. Come February, when the Ivy schedule kicks into gear, the Crimson ballers play back-to-back games every Friday and Saturday night for a few weeks. Coupled with practices during the week, basketball players often have little time for anything else in the spring...
...commandos--led by Army Rangers--lifted off in helicopters and MC-130 Combat Talon planes from bases in southern Pakistan and Oman. A military cameraman videotaped the special forces donning fatigues (the camera zoomed in on a photo of New York fire fighters that commandos had packed in their gear to leave at their destinations), boarding aircraft and leaping out in Afghanistan. While a group of commandos seized a dry-lake airstrip some 100 miles southwest of Kandahar, other troops headed to Kandahar itself in pursuit of Omar and one of his command centers. The special forces didn't manage...