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When traffic in Jakarta snarls to a stop - as it so often does in the Indonesian capital - swarms of peddlers besiege occupants of air-conditioned cars, offering up everything from roasted peanut to balloons. Lately, though, the street vendors have added another item to their eclectic wares: posters of the country's recently re-elected President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The hawking of new merchandise in some of the world's worst gridlock is a fitting metaphor for a country that hopes to add a second I to the so-called BRIC emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China. Just...
...part is that without any business to do, the last remaining pot dealers will now have absolutely no reason to stop talking and leave your apartment...
...keys to Mafia Wars' appeal is that it's easy. Unlike in a "real" video game, you can't really lose. The constant stream of rewards is addictive; you become like a rat who can't stop pushing the lever to get the little pellets. Your resources constantly regenerate, and the game is always giving you random items that you don't even know how you earned. People in your mafia send you gifts too. The game will try to make you give them in return, and tell them about things you're doing and - this is important - recruit more...
...freshman defender Richard Smith—still in the box from a corner a few seconds earlier—who directed his first-time shot towards the right side of the goal. Despite getting his hands on it, Quakers’ freshman keeper Garon Smith was unable to stop the ball from trickling into...
...field was still soaked from the previous day’s downpour, but that didn’t stop Harvard from creating chances right from the start...