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...chain reaction. I soon heard the rat-tat-tat of machine guns and squads of planes starting to dive-bomb the destroyers and cruisers nearest shore. I saw a large plane fly low over the water from the direction of Honolulu into battleship row and drop a torpedo toward the middle of the ships. The plane then turned toward Aiea, my hometown, hugging the surface of the water to avoid antiaircraft fire. As the plane flew a few hundred feet over my head, I saw the pilot with a canvas helmet and large goggles over his eyes looking down...
...They handle the puck a little more individually than we do,” Stone said. “We like to move it as quickly as we can. They hold on to the puck a little longer than we choose to. They play that torpedo system, where they bring four people down in to the zone, but they don’t have to play a lot of defense, and they haven’t had to play a lot defense all season. Our goal is to try to put them in a position where they have to play...
...turf wars. More critically FIFA, global football's governing body, could create a worldwide industry for these companies. FIFA has approved 30 facilities with synthetic turf, including the training pitch at Clairefontaine, France's famed football academy, and Luzhniki Olympic Stadium in Moscow, home to the Spartak and Torpedo Moscow clubs. Should FIFA approve the surface for all competitions, annual industry sales, now about j300 million, could explode. The European market seems ripe as cash-strapped clubs look for cost-effective ways to keep their pitches playable through the European winter. In the '80s, some clubs tried plastic pitches...
...know these closet nerds exist, because--improbable as it sounds to those who wish someone would shove a photon torpedo up the Enterprise exhaust--the enterprise still thrives. Though showing its age after 664 TV shows and a 35th birthday last year, the franchise still generates perhaps $200 million a year in revenues when you add up movie grosses, TV ad sales and what's spent on books (500 have been published), DVDs and tchotchkes (Trek ornaments are always among Hallmark's top holiday sellers). Paramount claims merchandise sales have exceeded $4 billion over Trek's lifetime; 470 people have...
ROAD TRIP When the workweek is over, Bishkek's better-heeled hit the road for the twisty four-hour drive to Issyk-Kul, a 170 km-long lake in the mountains of northeastern Kyrgyzstan. In Soviet times, despite being the site of secret torpedo tests, Issyk-Kul was a famed R. and R. spot for party cadres in search of pampering at the area's plush hotels and sanitoriums...