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...owners too. Computer consultant Kate Bushman, 40, of Boylston, Mass., will half-lease her aging Thoroughbred to a thrice-weekly rider and buy a horse suitable for jumping competitions. After a layoff eliminated her six-figure salary, she says, "I can't justify paying for two horses." A stall and food at a stable with a winterproof indoor ring cost $600 to $1,000 a month--not including shoes, shots, worming and insurance. --By Marjorie Backman...
...showing up on celebrities and regular folks alike--yet another sport has been added to the mix: women's roller-derby uniforms. Until now, "nobody has done a true vintage-sports line for women actually based on garments that were historically worn," says Jerry Cohen, co-owner of Stall and Dean, which launched the roller-derby line. "We have sold out of our first production run." The body-hugging tops and shorts represent four teams from the 1950s to the '70s: the O'Reily Renegades, the New York Bombers, the Latin Liberators and the Kansas City Bombers. --By Isabel Gonzalez
...atrocities, in which 800,000 Rwandans died. More than 100,000 suspects are in jail awaiting trial on genocide charges. NOT SAYING MUCH INDONESIA Negotiations between the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Jakarta government got off to a shaky start when the separatists threatened to stall the meeting if their delegates - five men arrested for trying to leave the country without notifying authorities - were not released by police. The meetings, which are taking place in Tokyo, may be the last chance to salvage a peace agreement brokered last December between the two sides. Separatist rebels have been fighting...
...there is competition for stall space. Ghermezian says Flush plans to offer ads on video screens within the next few years, but Zoom Media is already doing so. Zoom places interactive signs and small billboards above sinks and urinals in men's rooms, and on the backs of stall doors in women's rooms. The ads appear in 35 cities in the U.S., mostly in restaurants and bars where they reach customers in the coveted 18-to-34 age group. When Comedy Central was launching its show Crank Yankers last June, it hired Zoom to place...
...Officers responded to a report of a vandalized bathroom stall in Quincy House...