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...Comic-Con for hours. If anything, I've made more money, and it's allowed me to really indulge in my geeky side in a way I never thought I'd be able to. I buy comic books and toys and figurines and statues--all that stuff...
...many regular drinks in between matches, the bar helps arrange free rides home. At the World Series in Las Vegas, each team plays with 10 cups, four with water in them and six with beer. The 16-oz. cups are a quarter to a third full. Since each side has roughly one beer per person, the idea is that no one will consume more than one beer per hour. Last January, 300 teams of two paid at least $500 to enter the WSOBP. In its fourth year in 2009, the World Series expects some 500 teams...
...then searched several ponds near a Fort Detrick, Md., biodefense lab for evidence in the anthrax investigation. It was an expensive, cinematic strategy that would ultimately lead nowhere, but no one knew that then. Except perhaps for the older man who stood off to the side handing out coffee and sandwiches. In addition to being a respected scientist, Bruce Ivins was a Red Cross volunteer, manning the canteen. He was known as reliable and cheerful, and he had been asked by the Frederick County, Md., chapter to take time off from his job to help keep the agents...
...while the French love a lover, they're less enamored of entrepreneurs. Meetic's stock price has halved since last January, slashing its market value to $280 million - quite a haircut for Simoncini, who owns nearly a third of the company. "It's far and away the worst side of France - they're always telling you that whatever you do, it won't work," he says. "I'm sad for everyone who's lost money, but I'm not going to let it stop me from doing what I think is right - after all, it's my money in there...
...must have thought the fumes had melted their brains. Here they were in the North African kingdom of Morocco, riding into a slum in the town of Salé. Yet as they peered through the window of the bus, they could see a giant poster on the side of a house, featuring a leering Saddam Hussein holding a rifle. Stranger sights lay ahead: as the bus rounded a corner, the street was full of Iraqis and American soldiers in Humvees...