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...Vegas Strip when high winds caused the ride to shut down. At Disney World in Orlando, Fla., a 4-year-old boy died after passing out on Mission: Space, a turbulent motion-simulator ride. (An investigation is under way; no safety problems have been found.) And the new Kingda Ka roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, N.J., billed as the fastest yet, was shut down last week after a malfunction...
...really is English they speak there. The accent is but a minor distraction; it's the words that stop newcomers in their tracks. Newspapers refer casually to tikanga (Maori culture) and kaupapa (philosophy or plan). TV hosts open and close their shows with haere mai (welcome) and ka kite ano (see you later). Acquaintances say they're flat out with mahi (work) and have a hui (meeting) to get to. John Macalister, a writing teacher at Victoria University of Wellington, returned to New Zealand in 1997 after 16 years away and felt like a foreigner. Forced to look...
...m.p.h. Top speed of Kingda Ka, the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster, which opened last week at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson...
...ecstasy were men: Daniel Auteuil in Hidden,Viggo Mortensen in Violence, Bill Murray in Broken Flowers, Jeremie Renier in L'Enfant, Nazmi Kirik in Kilometre Zero, Michael Pitt in Last Days, Sam Shepard in Don't Come Knocking, Mickey Rourke or Bruce Willis in Sin City, Tony Leung Ka-fei or Simon Yam in Election... the list is distinguished, and nearly endless...
...most important quality a chief executive candidate should have is a noble character." LI KA-SHING, billionaire business tycoon, endorsing Hong Kong interim leader Donald Tsang as the territory's next chief executive...