Word: spare
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...Sell 26.2 copies of Spare Change...
...about $125,000 a show, and he boasts a steady stream of lucrative fees for advertisements and endorsements. This level of success "is more than enough," says Lau, whom friends describe as traditional and who lives in a house next door to his father's in Kowloon. In his spare time, Lau practices magic tricks?he once levitated a woman onstage during a concert?or goes bowling. Indeed, he's so obsessive about bowling that his manager, Lee Siu-lan, once berated him for going two years without winning an award because he wasted too much time at the bowling...
...Mindanao. For Pacquiao, boxing may have been the only way. His parents separated when he was young, and his mother, Dionisia Pacquiao, raised her six children on her paltry income from a series of odd jobs. Manny helped out by selling bread and taking in laundry, but in his spare time he would do gofer work at the local gym or pound cardboard boxes filled with clothes - his first makeshift punching bag. Wiry, tanned and talkative, 54-year-old Dionisia nowadays lives next door to Pacquiao's new house, in a smaller place her son bought her. She leaves little...
...have $50,000 to spare for a real Hummer, then you might consider a more modest alternative: a line of gadgets from Conair that are modeled after the brawny cars. The devices include a digital boom box, a CD player and two-way radios ($99, shown above). Out in April, the radios feature a digital compass and voice activation...
...They come from a list of locales so wide and varied that it might make Howard Dean antsy. Try blending this kind of mixture in a sport like baseball—distinct positions, varied roles and all—and forging a team out of spare parts turns out to be a more tricky proposition than you might think...