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...meters ahead on the highway, Raja raced for shelter. A dozen fellow bikers were there already. As three lanes of rush-hour traffic continued to roar past, more bikers squeezed in, huddling together and turning their backs to the windblown rain and the heavy spray from passing vehicles. Raja lit a cigarette, then tilted one of his rear-view mirrors to check just how bedraggled he looked...
...This merchandise is exported almost exclusively to the West. Grade-A or -B fakes sell for less in the bazaars of China--although some make their way to U.S. street stalls. Hong Kong residents stock up on fakes across the border, at Shenzhen's multi-story mall, where fluorescent-lit shops sell pirated Chinese-made DVD players, sneakers and top-quality knock-offs of the latest brand-name bags...
...chick-lit genre has two new first-time authors. Bonus points if you can guess which book comes with a free naked pinup...
GENRE Unapologetic chick lit...
...Engine turn-on," announced the propulsion engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., at 7:36 p.m. (P.T.), when the signal came down that the ship's fire had been lit. For the next hour and a half, the room was largely quiet. It was not until 9:12 that the same engineer spoke the words that meant the engine firing was over and the spacecraft had survived...