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Profiting from Chinese basketball ought to be a slam dunk. The fans are there; attendance at Chinese Basketball Association games has been rising steadily and is on pace to break 600,000 this season. Valuable sponsors are eager to plaster their logos on team jerseys and arena signboards. Homegrown superstars are emerging, such as rangy prodigies Hu Weidong, a crowd-pleasing Jiangsu Dragons forward, and Yao Ming, a 2.23-m windmill who regulates the paint for the Shanghai Sharks. Showtime in the CBA has all the trappings of big-time hoops. It's becoming a credible entertainment replete with thunderjams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brick City | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...course of the universe with our conclusions either. As such, the thesis is simply a research paper; a bit longer, and a bit more in-depth than most we have written, but a research paper nonetheless. So go ahead and introduce your argument, supplant it with evidence and then slam it shut with a conclusion. Besides a couple of revisions and advisor meetings, the thesis should be your basic “wham, bam, thank-you ma’am” operation...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, | Title: Thesis This | 2/21/2002 | See Source »

...Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge/Third Rail. The Lounge features a blues jam upstairs and a poetry slam downstairs. 738 Mass. Ave., Cambridge. T: Central Square. Wednesday...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Night, Out of Love | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

...downhill. I want to keep my sanity. I don't want to hurt myself. I have done downhill, and it does help my cross-country. But I will never become a giant slalom racer. It's just risky. Why would you want to go through that? I could slam into a tree and just die! Cross-country skiing has some risk, but you can't really just hurt yourself. The speeds are not high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Praise of Lost Causes | 2/5/2002 | See Source »

Until he does it again, Harvard forward Sam Winter’s monster slam against Brown Friday night should be known as “The Dunk...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Rahooligan: M. Hoops' Performance Pleases Packed House | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

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