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...Southern California theme-park construction. Knott's Berry Farm, owned by Cedar Fair L.P., a publically traded, Ohio-based company that owns nine amusement parks across the country, has just spent nearly $70 million on a new luxury hotel, a 13-acre water park, Soak City U.S.A., and a thrill ride, Perilous Plunge, which it calls the tallest (115 ft.) and steepest (75[degree] angle) water ride of its kind. Knott's is located only seven miles down the freeway from Disneyland...
...français "formidable!" Satch, Trummy Young, Billy Kyle and the rest broil their venerable chops in a sweetly swingin' 12-bar blues. And Bing leads them, a simpatico impresario, with a suave verve. Beneath the famous Crosby savoir-faire, we for once sense the adolescent thrill he must have felt back in the mid-'20s, when he first heard Armstrong create the naughty form of music that Bing made nice...
...actually a piece of irony that I'm here tonight," Hopkins said. "I went through my academic career without a clue. To be at an American university as great as Harvard is a thrill and an honor...
...nation's longest-running reality show. We watch their movies to laugh or cry or defy death. We watch their lives so we can dream. So rich! So beautiful! And when they fall, we must admit, we feel a bit better about ourselves. But this time, the thrill is missing. For there was always something vulnerable about the Tom and Nicole marriage. When they wed 11 years ago, both were still in their twenties. It's easier to grow apart than to grow together. Despite their efforts never to spend more than two weeks apart, it was often a long...
...just as impressive is the way in which Half's business model is different. Kopelman saw something the folks at eBay were slow to appreciate--just how much demand there was for fixed-price deals. "There are people who love the thrill of bidding and winning," says Kopelman. "But there are other people who don't want to win an auction, they just want the CD." Kopelman's goal was to make it easier to sell an item than to throw it away. He's not there yet--garbage still doesn't need to be bubble-wrapped or taken...