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...North American weekend box office had to fight off a continent-deep whiteout: another walloping snow storm on the East Coast, a high-rated Winter Olympics and hockey fever in Canada. Yet it looks to surpass last year's end-of-February count by about 7%. Regardless of snow or four-man bobsled races, people still want to go to the movies...
...food and drink and sensuality. If I were given the choice of dying and going to heaven, it would be Italy I would go to. I couldn’t live there. Life there would be too sweet and too soft. I need to live in the gray north in order to work...
Earlier this week researchers affiliated with the Graduate School of Education presented their findings on the variables that influence teacher effectiveness to North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board...
...miles away, life went on pause across the Korean Peninsula as students (now on winter break) and office workers all stopped what they were doing to watch Kim's program at 1:20 p.m. Seung Jun Lee, a 16-year-old high school student in Yangju, 30 miles north of Seoul, returned home from cram school at lunch to watch Kim skate with his family. "Maybe I will have to skip class today," he predicted amid the excitement. Even businessmen had caught Kim fever and were willing to suffer a dip in productivity during her skate. "When...
...look overseas as well, when her talent outmatched the coaching skills in Korea. She sought out a training facility in North America or Europe, landing in Toronto, where Canadian Olympic silver medalist Brian Orser was just beginning his coaching career. Having decided to adopt a hands-on approach, Orser skates along with Kim during most of her training sessions, pushing her to the remarkable speed she achieves as she flies across the rink. The move may have been just what Kim needed. "I think Yu-Na improved so much in Canada," says Jae Eun Chung, director of the Korean Skating...