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...came out of retirement to compete, bulking up with an old sumo trick: eat chanko nabe, a rich stew, then promptly go to sleep. But size ultimately matters less than technique--there are 70 moves a wrestler can use to get his opponent out of the ring. "I'm a pusher, a thruster," says Kaleo, who fights for Japan. "I come out like a boo rush." An all-American sumo to watch is Yale graduate and math teacher Kena Heffernan. "He's a very exciting wrestler but not that big," says Yonezuka. "Only...
ONENOTE Microsoft's program is set up like a digital three-ring binder for taking notes and managing research. Use it not just for business or homework projects but also for handling plans for your next vacation. You can even use Onenote to clip and annotate bits of Web pages or organize your online receipts...
...HYBRID. An SUV will glug $1,831 on average at the pump this year, and a sedan will ring up $1,453, according to the Alliance to Save Energy. Meanwhile, a hybrid will swallow as little as $589--not to mention that tax break of up to $3,000 included in last summer's energy bill for buying...
...problem was that Cash and Carter, both devout Christians, were married to other people while they toured together for almost 10 years. June may have written the lyrics for Ring of Fire ("it burns, burns, burns") about her feelings for Johnny, but over the course of their 35-year marriage, they stuck to the story that they didn't get together until the earlier relationships ended. "We're all for star-crossed lovers," says Konrad, "but a decade of nothing...
...knew there wouldn't be anything else worthwhile for an actor my age," says Phoenix. He was offered, for instance, a cross-generational buddy movie with Married with Children's Ed O'Neill, "but there was a lot of bananas in tailpipes and things like that. It didn't ring true, and I had a sense of wanting to explore true stories and true emotions. Even when I quit, I'd make up characters and scenarios and practice them alone. I knew that I would act again...