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...With the stream of wealthier parents came additional support. Parents chipped in to buy high-tops for students on the basketball team who couldn't afford them. Others banded together to raise $120,000 to build a new track...
...Equally confusing to Lucie were the peculiarities of the business. For example, every evening between 9:00 and 10:00 when the clubs were just opening up, a steady stream of Nissan Cimas and Jaguar S-TYPEs pulled to the curbs in front of the six- and seven-story buildings housing the hostess bars to drop off foreign girls in their knocked-off finest. The girls, nearly always Caucasian and usually in their early 20s, insouciantly climbed out through doors held open by men who were always Japanese and usually twice their age. The girls cut through the Roppongi sidewalk...
...Last year 6 billion text messages were sent in the U.K. Worldwide, the figure topped 100 billion. Most messagers are in the 15-to-24 age bracket, and they each send more than 50 messages a month on average. That, say market experts, adds up to a lucrative stream of revenue for mobile service providers. Text messaging is priced separately from the flat fee charged by mobile telephone providers. It's not a bad sideline for media outlets like the Guardian, either. Though the newspaper has not disclosed any readership increases from its telepoetry contest, Keegan says participation was "massive...
...currently some 18 panels reviewing aspects of military strategy, policy and force development as part of a planned dramatic overhaul designed to equip the U.S. armed forces for the wars of the future. Many of their recommendations are in conflict - and the fact that there's a steady stream of minor leaks to the media has resulted in a frenzy of speculative reporting which has the U.S. scrapping large aircraft carriers the one day, retaining them the next; scrapping manned fighter planes or going ahead with all three costly fighters currently in development; scrapping the ability-to-fight...
...with pretty nudes) and spied upon by a Peeping Tom of a hunter, Actaeon; whereat the virgin moon goddess, her modesty offended, changed him into a stag. In Vermeer's version, circa 1653-54, there is no Actaeon, no river, no nakedness, and instead of plunging into the stream, Diana is merely having her foot washed in a basin by a nymph--Christian paganism, complete with that image of spiky, untouchable virtue, a thistle, sprouting by her side...