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...sign. A line of clothing called iFoz-weari is in the works, among other things. According to John R. Kraay e01, one of the roommates, iWeire looking to expand the ebillboard,i to produce some t-shirts, all oriented around the Foz.i Whatever the future holds for this ordinary Midwestern boy, one thingis for sure: wherever The Foz is, the Beast will follow...
...utilities are not the only businesses using derivatives. In the winter of 1998, Montreal transportation-equipment giant Bombardier offered Midwestern buyers a $1,000 rebate on its Ski-Doo snowmobiles if a set amount of snow didn't fall that season. Bombardier backed the promise with a weather derivative, and with the help of other promotions, saw its Ski-Doo sales in the region jump 38% over the previous year's. "In a market driven 100% by weather, it's a little insurance for us and for the customer," says David Thompson, a Ski-Doo spokesman. This winter...
...Following defeat at the hands of midwestern footballers, Tennesseans have been nursing their wounded egos...
...York City's Times Square on New Year's Eve could conceivably look like a scene out of a Quentin Tarantino movie, with different groups of terrorists - unaware of each other and motivated by passions as diverse as Middle Eastern Islamic fundamentalism and midwestern right-wing conspiracy theories - converging to spread bloody mayhem at ground zero of America's millennium celebration. It's a truly scary scenario, in which acolytes of monsters as different as Timothy McVeigh and Osama Bin Laden engage in a kind of terrorism Olympics with innocent New Yorkers as their cannon fodder...
...FREAKS AND GEEKS (NBC) Television has rarely got adolescence as hilariously, soul-crushingly right as in this bittersweet paean to Midwestern childhood circa 1980. With a cast that actually looks and sounds like kids, not Gap models, Freaks takes teen-show stereotypes--nerd, burnout, clueless parent--and fleshes each out with humor and heart...