Word: sprites
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Chen used to let his evenings unfold in the corners of Shanghai's cheapest bars. He was content with his Sprite-and-beer shandies and a stack of car magazines to keep him company. But last September, the 20-year-old engineering major decided to break with routine. He bypassed his usual watering hole and climbed a narrow staircase to a windowless room. There, too, the men were sitting alone, obscured by clouds of cheap cigarette smoke. Chen had found a new hangout. In late May, he spent 32 hours straight in the illegal Internet caf?, working his way through...
...advertising an upcoming play at Dudley House. The Poland Spring jug is empty. The freezer has bags of ice and two lonely containers of sherbet. Hungry grad students would fare no better in a fridge raid. The massive fridge’s shelves contain nothing except two half-empty Sprite bottles and a huge bowl of coffee creamers ready to fill the coffee cups of stressed graduate students. “Some people might like to add a coffee machine—and a piano to replace the one we had to give back,” Dransfield says...
...Start with Pepsi's share of the U.S. carbonated soft-drink market, including brands like Mountain Dew and Slice: up two-tenths of a percentage point to 31.6% last year, Beverage Digest reports. Coke brands, including Diet Coke and Sprite, still lead easily with a 43.7% share - but that's down four-tenths of a point. Both companies' flagship colas, which together account for 1 of every 3 sodas sold in the U.S., lost share last year. But Coke's lost more, and Pepsi scored big with new flavors Code Red and Lemon Twist. PepsiCo recently embarrassed its bigger rival...
...success has spawned a mini industry in Hong Kong. Artist Eric So's career took off when he released a collection of retro-dressed Bruce Lee figures in 1997. So, 33, a friend of Lau, describes his recent Sprite-commissioned dolls and Vespa-riding Sam Lee figures as "playable artworks." Radio presenter Martin Lam, 26, creates hunched bad-boy dolls as promotional items for streetwear shops such as Tokyo's Double Taps. "They are all animated versions of me, my other personas," Lam says...
Gamines are always a big hit at the Olympics, whether they're ice skaters or gymnasts. Perhaps the first celebrity sprite was Belarus gymnast OLGA KORBUT, whose feats of elasticity in 1972 earned her three gold medals. Unfortunately, she seems to have tumbled in her middle years. Now 46 and living in Atlanta, Korbut was arrested recently for shoplifting $19 worth of groceries. It was further revealed that in December, police who arrived at her apartment with an eviction notice found $30,000 in counterfeit bills. A friend said Korbut was not living there at the time...