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...bottom, presumably for tying people on to it. There was a wheel to change the angle of the bed to lift it up or down. There were spikes at the top of the bed. Right beside that there were ropes fitted to the ceilings with rubber loops for wrists to go through...
...subway station at Sugamo, a neighborhood of northwestern Tokyo's Toshima Ward, riders ascend single file to street level at the pace of treacle on a winter day - a pace that allows for eyes to adjust to the rising step and for a firm grip on both red rubber handrails. Here in "Grannies' Harajuku" (based on the name of a district famous for its nubile trendsetters and fashion pranksters), slow is the operative word. Heads in the crowd are gray and silver, not black, pink or red. Glasses are for seeing, not for being seen. The shoes are comfortable...
Angry crowds of Luos and Kalenjin also squared off along a road in the tourist town of Naivasha, an hour north. The clashes in Naivasha reached a near-breaking point on Tuesday, when army helicopters fired what police said were rubber bullets into crowds of demonstrators facing off against each other along a major road. "We know very well the police are not doing their work, they are also political, they are favoring one side, they are not caring for all people," said Odinga supporter Evans Maremi...
...Chinese seems a bit quixotic, then Novak, 55, is the right man for the job. The CEO of Yum since 2000, he's a plain-talking, cheerleading executive who boasts of never having attended business school. He's given to goofy team-building tactics like passing out rubber chickens (and $100) to KFC managers whose stores are performing well. A former $7,200-a-year advertising copywriter, Novak took his marketing chops to PepsiCo in 1987. Though he suffered his biggest failure there--Crystal Pepsi, which he still contends was the right idea at the wrong time--he was handed...
...Felicity, Alias and Lost and producer of Cloverfield. "When Godzilla came out, the idea of doing a movie about the destruction of a city because of a radioactive man-made thing must have had a similar feeling. On the one hand, it's a silly man in a rubber suit. On the other hand, it's a way to process these fears that are mostly bottled...