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...solid build and medium height make me a perfect base, according to the coach. That means I have one of the flyer’s feet in my hands, legs outspread for balance and support. We count off, with specific motions happening on specific beats. And all of a sudden I have a girl’s life literally in my hands. She’s smiling—I really don’t know why. I’m scared just looking at her. I hope she doesn’t have vertigo...
...probability-slightly disturbed as, say, Potter, who kept a duffel bag of guns and hand grenades in his Saigon apartment. Another unpopular war broke out as I finished reading Lost over Laos, and I suspect that's what gave it much of its resonance. So did the sudden, sobering thought that-with the never-ending war on terror taking journalist friends to ever more hostile places-I could conceivably find myself writing a similar book...
...sudden rise in quality and variety of Asian restaurants in Houston might surprise some visitors, but at least one chef finds the city a logical fit. As Indika's Jaisinghani points out, "I don't think I could keep it this spicy in any other part of the country." The jury's still out on the chicken feet...
...championship, for which matches had been scheduled in Shanghai this fall, has been moved out of China. And in a tacit admission that even the most careful of cities can't always escape, Shanghai is building extra SARS wards on the outskirts of town, in case there's a sudden overflow of patients...
...sudden viral surge has been a setback for Chen's administration. Until last week, politicians had been patting themselves on the back for keeping the disease largely at bay. Officials were only too happy to compare their handling of the outbreak with the situation in mainland China, where authoritarian bureaucrats initially tried to cover up the existence of the disease, only to see the number of infections explode?mistakes that cost the mainland's top health official and the mayor of Beijing their jobs. "Because we had avoided what happened in Hong Kong and China we thought we had avoided...