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...offering an entirely un-unique mixture of mediocre menu items and overpriced libations. But the Pub manages to do great business, as it is known to youthful denizens of Manhattan’s Upper West Side as one of all too few establishments that will serve alcohol to anyone tall enough to get their head over the counter. The many Columbia undergrads who frequent the Pub still have what we have lost: an FDE. (Free Drinking Establishment, not to be confused with...
After my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I saw a chamber of about 8 sq. ft., high enough for a tall man to stand. The floor was dirt and rubble, but there were signs of habitation. I saw two empty white boxes decorated with palm trees and the words "Sherjah Dates." Scattered on the floor were a few green metal boxes of ammunition with Russian writing on them. Another cave next to it was about the same size and filled with ammunition--mostly rocket-propelled grenades and bullets for Kalashnikovs...
...Sloops to Conquer Though Frenchman Michel Desjoyeaux won the solo Vend?e Globe Round the World yacht race, Britain's tiny (1.57 m tall) Ellen MacArthur earned the loudest cheers. Her gutsy 94-day voyage drew a crowd of 200,000 to the Sables d'Olonne finish line in France to hail the youngest - she's 24 - and the quickest woman ever to complete the race...
...surgery's popularity is abetted by requirements that exclude short citizens from dozens of fields, from flight attendants to government translators. In a country that has hundreds of qualified applicants for every job, height minimums are one way to whittle down the competition. "You don't have to be tall to be good at computers," says Ma Xiang, a recruiter for a consortium of online companies in Beijing, which requires that female applicants be at least 1.6 m tall (the average height of Chinese women). "But it's one of the ways we can limit the number of rEsumEs...
...shorter person is more talented." When Xiaohong finishes the six-month exercise and rehab program in Beijing, she knows she will have to tell her mother about the extravagant expense. After all, you can't hide an 8-cm growth spurt. But Xiaohong's not worried. "When I am tall, I will be able to face many obstacles," she says?even the wrath of a parsimonious mother...