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...Hockey is hard because you skate on ice. In handball, you just move your legs. "It's running, jumping and throwing," says Tom Fitzgerald, who played on the U.S. Olympic team in 1996, the last year in which the U.S. fielded a team. "It's what Americans do. What's the problem here...
DUBLANICA: You really want to know? There was a customer who ordered a hamburger and was just being crazy about it. He sent it back three times because he said it didn't taste good. Finally two guys played hockey with it in the kitchen. They used brooms as hockey sticks and dustbins as goalposts, and they knocked it around. Then they washed it off and gave it to him. He said, "Now it's good...
...popular destination is the hair salon, where stylists shout at passersby offering a can't-miss deal: a trim, wash and blow-dry, for the unbeatable price of zero yuan. "They wrap you in," says Canadian field-hockey player Ravinder Kahlon. "They're like 'Hair! Wash!' Next thing you know I'm getting a cut." You need the right 'do for the medal stand, don't you? (And to impress that stunning Brazilian volleyball player.) Plus, too thick a coif can slow you down in the Beijing heat...
Perhaps it would be unreasonable to expect that, even as the Opening Ceremonies creep closer, the Olympians can think sports 24/7 in the Village. After swearing off extracurricular activity, Trupish, the Canadian boxer, and Kahlon, the field-hockey player, huddled with two countrymen and walked toward the square. "Maybe we can find that girl," one of them said...
With a series of slides that looked like textbook examples of "hockey stick" growth, Zuckerberg showed how quickly his network has taken off. A little over a year ago, Facebook had 24 million users. Today? Zuckerberg claimed that 90 million folks - two-thirds of whom are outside the U.S. - use the network. He pretty much guaranteed that the number of active users would hit 100 million by year's end. Some 200,000 programmers are making applications for Facebook, and have attracted more than $200 million in investment. That's a lot of users and developers, and a spectacular amount...