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Competing individually, the rowers raced not in boats, but on ergometers, with each oarsman navigating a 2000-meter course...
Wang's plan to leap into the U.S. was simple: buy a small, listed American firm and move his own operations into its corporate shell. He has used such "backdoor listings" at home by buying a mango packer, shifting part of his meter business to it and renaming it Holley Science and Technology. For his U.S. debut, he chose a struggling, NASDAQ-listed California firm called American Champion Entertainment. Its main asset was a kids' TV show, Adventures with Kanga Roddy, about a karate-kicking marsupial. Wang paid $5 million in early 2001 for a controlling interest. Two months later...
...channel nationally across cable networks. Not content to just retransmit the local crop report, Hunan came up with a slate of all-new programs geared to popular (read: low-brow) tastes. Its leading show, Happy Camper, let celebrities and ordinary folk embarrass themselves by, for instance, dangling from 20-meter cords while tossing basketballs at a hoop. Hunan grew so successful that in 1998 it became the first TV studio to list on a Chinese stock market...
Traugott had a solid run in the 1000 meters, winning in 2:29.34. Senior Matt Seidel was victorious in the 3000-meter...
Freshman Samyr Laine, who has overwhelmed his competition throughout the season, won the triple jump with a distance of 14.82 meters. Laine jumped more than a meter and a half farther than anyone else...