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...organized the world's largest tea party in Nishio, a city famous for its green teas. Precisely 14,718 people simultaneously sipped while sitting barefoot on 1.5 km of red carpet, smashing the previous mark of 7,250. No word on whether they also broke the record for longest port-a-potty line ever...
Still, it's doubtful he'll stray much from the recipe that has brought him so much success in the Caribbean. Take Haiti, for example. Digicel's due diligence consisted of ceo Colm Delves driving around the capital of Port-au-Prince for three hours. He concluded that the nation had a rich cash economy, and O'Brien quickly committed $130 million. That money went first to a massive marketing campaign. Next, Digicel began to sells its phones, all brand-name models, for less than half the price of its closest competitor. It even gave some away...
...Every day, we were getting better,” Brian Aldrich says. “We had a novice [three-seat Chip Schellhorn ’07] in there who had never raced in a smaller boat than an eight before. I had to switch to port, and I was really struggling at first with that. But we got a lot of practice in.”The Crimson, lither and lighter thanmuch of the field, also looked a little bit slower early on. “We didn’t have it together at the beginning [in heats...
...simply enjoys playing his beloved instrument. “When I play, my troubles and worries seems to vanish,” says Zhou, speaking in Mandarin through a translator.A LATE START, BUT LASTING PASSIONBorn in 1944 as the eldest of five children, Zhou grew up in the Chinese port city of Nanjing.His father was an enormous fan of Peking opera, a centuries-old form of Chinese opera. This love was instilled in the young Zhou, who grew up listening to the music on the radio.In 1966, after watching a friend play the jinghu, which figures prominently in Peking opera...
...just on my home network. There?s a ?do it yourself? mode, but take my advice, nerds, and let Sling?s software take the first crack ? it was very fast, and saved me from having to log into my router, let alone recalling frighteningly geeky concepts such as ?port forwarding.? On the screen flashed a message that everything was good...