Word: hourglasses
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...mountainside in Franconia, New Hampshire, Miller was home schooled until he was 8 and as a young boy spent every day on nearby Cannon Mountain. Miller was experimenting with different techniques in 1996 when a representative from ski manufacturer K2 handed him a pair of the new hourglass-shaped "side-cut" skis. At the Junior Olympics a week later, he was the first to use them. He won the Super-G and giant slalom - two speed events where the gates are spaced more widely apart than in ordinary slalom - by the unheard-of margin of more than 2 sec. each...
...time. Plus, the most strenuous thing many of us have to do these days is to flick the remote control. Prosperity encourages a sedentary lifestyle. The trouble is that our bodies are being fattened along with our wallets. On the other hand, some women are starving themselves to attain hourglass figures and in the process are getting sick from poor nutrition. If that trend goes on, Indian females may soon be nothing but skin and bones. Jagmohan Rathi Ghaziabad, India...
...moving parts, not all of which are under your control. On the other hand, if all you have is empathy and ambiguity and you don't know when to stand and fight and when to say no, then in the end all the sand will run out of the hourglass before you really can prevail...
...single digits here." Gert Kopera, general manager of the Dharmawangsa, the Rosewood-operated boutique hotel in Jakarta, predicts that "hotels at the top end, like us, will do all right and so will the hotels at the bottom." In other words, travel is returning to where it began?an hourglass market, a place with no middle...
...troupe’s music comes from only four instruments: the kwaenggari (the lead instrument, small and loud), the janggo (hourglass-shaped, with ornamental sticks on either side), the buk (a big round drum that provides the bass beat) and the jing (a gong that, Ahn says, “rounds out the beats with a deeper, darker sound?...