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...headed up to Connecticut's Stafford Motor Speedway to meet Dennis Anderson, the man who built Grave Digger in 1981 and still drives it whenever his shoulder is attached to his body. He told me he had started out "mudboggin' and tug-o-warrin'" four-wheel drives. I didn't understand most of what Dennis said. After sitting down for a brief conversation, he told me my monster-truck name should be Powder Puff Boy. Then he punched me in the knee...
...When a British engineer uncovered the stone in 1911 in the southern port of Galle, the 12-cm-thick slab, which was being used as a drain cover, caused a wave of excitement in the archeological world. Here was solid proof of Zheng He's odysseys. Today, the shoulder-high stone lies all but forgotten in a corner of the National Museum in Colombo. In Galle, a replica of the tablet - the town's sole record of Zheng He's passing - sits in the National Maritime Museum alongside pieces of the wrecked ships of later Dutch and Portuguese visitors. Although...
...lion. Only one year and four months old, but at least three feet tall at the shoulder. The minister assured us that it was friendly, but the fact that it did have all its teeth and claws intact made us a bit wary. The lion's name was Chi Chi, and it loved jumping up onto the minister and wrestling with him. At the start of the resumed interview, Chi Chi bit into the minister's crotch, which brought a small shout, a few seconds of pain and then a whack over the nose to prompt the lion...
...renegade province, Taiwanese have about the same standing as stateless people. Says Taipei's Deng Chen-chung, vice chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council: "We have to admit that there's little we can do for our Taiwanese businessmen in China." Taipei's powerlessness and Beijing's cold shoulder mean that businesspeople are "on their own, like orphans," according to Isao Chen, chairman of the Macau-Taiwan Merchants' Association...
...girls dress alike?stiletto heels or sneakers, low-slung capris and halter tops, a spray of body glitter?so Short now says he doesn't recall a short, small-boned Japanese woman with white sneakers, a red sundress, brown-tinted hair and a tattoo of a butterfly on her shoulder...