Word: minis
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...into a small park to drink from one of the big fountains," Hayes said. "After we were re-routed, I heard one of the spotters using his bullhorn and he just kept yelling, 'Runner down, runner down!,' Inside the tent at the park, it looked like some type of mini-disaster, everyone icing themselves down, looking awful...
...Formula One drivers' championship, rookie Lewis Hamilton, 22, first picked up speed piloting karts as an 8-year-old. And he's not alone, even on his Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team. Hamilton's teammate and rival at McLaren, current world champion Fernando Alonso, started out racing the mini machines too. In fact, almost all of today's Formula One drivers, as well as past greats like Brazilian Ayrton Senna and Germany's Michael Schumacher, owe a debt to the experience first gained in a small plastic bucket seat...
...appetizer tidbits they call “side dishes” are good enough, but the most reliable meals are those involving noodles—after all, the place is masquerading as a noodle bar. The ramen noodles, which are served in a traditional large bowl with a mini-ladle, swim in various soups that make them wonderfully conducive to slurping. The kare noodles, which come in a coconut-based soup, are uneventful but satisfying. Your best bet is the moyashi soba (whole wheat), #27. It’s $10, vegetarian, and good for you, despite the blatant lack...
...Uniqueness] has always been the appeal of the Square,” says Gifford. “We’re losing sort of a funkiness.” Nevertheless, for Gifford the sanitization is a not an unwelcome change. “We were sort of like a mini combat zone in the 80s,” she says. “There was a proliferation of bars, late-night drunks. Store windows were being broken, cars were being vandalized…it was just a nightmare.”Rising rents slowly weeded out the less profitable. Today...
...toll. “In the past two months, we haven’t slept more than five hours a night,” said Yang. “But pairing up has made it easier.” “I feel like I have a mini-MBA after opening this place,” Wallace added. Although Wallace and Yang said they used the same critical thinking process and research methods to get the business started, they have found this new line of work to be fulfilling in a way their scientific work rarely...