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...men’s side, freshman Dan Emont and sophomore Adam Daoud followed Green on the eight-kilometer course. Emont finished in 26:40, good for 83rd overall, and Daoud followed five seconds later, crossing at 96th overall. Rounding out the results were senior Haibo Lu in 27:32 and 143rd place, freshman Tommy Hutchison in 148th place and a time of 27:36, and freshman Rob Schaaf, who finished 206th overall at 28:42. “Dan and Tommy did well,” Green said. “I think they took about a minute off their...
...People's Liberation Army, which bought them along with a vase for $4 million. Those purchases helped spur patriotic interest in cultural artifacts among wealthy Chinese, who began bidding in auctions in New York City and London as well as Hong Kong. In 2003, mainland tire manufacturer Lu Hanzhen paid $1.5 million for a Qing vase, while Ho bought another Summer Palace bronze, a boar's head, from a U.S. collector for $723,000 - less than a tenth of what he paid to buy the horse head from an unidentified Taiwan seller...
...earmarks inserted by individual congressmen, including not one but two bridges to nowhere in Alaska - the notorious $223 million crossing to the island of Gravina, population 50, and a $229 million boondoggle near Anchorage known as Don Young's Way. The entire bill was known as "TEA-LU," an acronym for the awkwardly named Transportation Equity Act - a Legacy for Users, which only makes sense if you know that Young's wife is named Lu...
...President Bush threatened to veto the bill unless it was slashed to $256 billion; he ultimately signed a $286 billion compromise. But the significance of TEA-LU was not its final amount. The significance was its utter lack of national purpose. Congress didn't have one, and Bush didn't propose one. In the 1950s, America built the interstate highway system to promote individual mobility and national security; in 1991, Congress tried to promote "intermodal" transportation to reduce dependence on automobiles; now transportation policy is completely divorced from transportation reality. If we're going to play I-told...
...mall was so quiet that the whirring of escalators could be heard. "Business has been slow since the mall opened in April," says Zhang Zihua, a saleswoman at menswear shop Notting Hill. "Most of the big shopping malls in Beijing are like this," says Zhang's fellow shopgirl Lu Miao. "Have you seen a shopping mall filled with customers...