Word: overnighting
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Japan is in mourning over the 16-year resident and superstar of Tokyo's Ueno Zoo. Ling Ling died overnight of heart failure and kidney malfunction. His portrait now sits inside his cage, next to bouquets and his favorite bamboo shoots. Some visitors wept; others prayed and wrote notes to his memory. In 1992, Ling Ling was part of a bilateral trade agreement of sorts: the Chinese gave Tokyo a giant black-and-white panda - native to its southwest - in exchange for a panda the Japanese had bred in captivity. China has since stopped giving pandas away as part...
...success of the duo has not been an overnight phenomenon. Having been a prominent fixture of the doubles lineup for the past two seasons, Kumar and Ermakov have gained All-Ivy Doubles honors and qualified for the NCAA Tournament, in addition to reaching No. 15 in the national rankings. But with patchy records over the past two years, consistency has eluded them—until...
...Sadr City, the militia's base in east Baghdad, heavy fighting erupted again Saturday night as the Mahdi Army continued street battles with Iraqi forces backed by U.S. airstrikes and American ground troops. At least 13 were reported to have died in overnight clashes...
...past week. And ironically, it was announced after a relative lull in violence in Sadr City. In fact, Saturday night passed in Sadr City with no dead or wounded appearing in the hospitals of the battered Shi'ite warren, where clashes have left more than 100 dead. Overnight the gunfire that had rattled across the slum through the past several days slowed, and by late afternoon Sunday an edgy calm was emerging...
...their real estate agents. Now they're hearing it from former Bachelor Bob Guiney. "The real estate market has come screeching to a halt!" he cries, over the sound of squealing tires, at the beginning of TLC's Date My House. On the new show, anxious sellers stage overnight "dates," in which potential buyers spend the night at the house, the better to "seduce" them into making a "long-term commitment." (The sellers themselves are not thrown in as part of the date package. But let the market drop another 10%, and we'll talk.) "It's time to stop...