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...watched a little guy do a little dance on the screen. At the time my thoughts were as follows: 1) Technologically speaking, this is a pretty amazing hack; 2) too bad the graphics suck; and 3) nobody will buy this ever. And 4) at least I got a free trip to Japan. And this was even before they told me the name...
...full two and a half feet. Losos decided to donate his prized pets to the St. Louis Zoo, where he had volunteered every summer.Even outside of St. Louis, Losos insisted that reptiles play an integral role on every family vacation—or he would refuse to attend.During a trip to Arizona in his early teens, Losos created a device that he continued to use until very recently: a fishing pole wound with dental floss could be used to catch lizards. He would spend hours hunting down the creatures, and, according to his sister, he was “very...
Save a Benjamin. Emirates is having a "One Day World Sale" on June 4, offering $100 off round-trip tickets booked online and originating in any U.S. gateway: New York, Houston, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The deal applies to all classes of travel on flights to select global destinations, including Dubai, Cape Town and Mumbai...
...teachers produced a photo of Geithner from that summer: it showed the future Treasury Secretary looking anything but buttoned down. Dressed in a T shirt and sporting a head of unruly, curly hair, he was photographed in front of Beijing's main railway station before he departed on a trip to Beidaihe, the seaside resort to which Beijing residents flock to beat the oppressive summer heat in China's capital. Surf's up, dude. The audience of 150 students laughed as Geithner, grinning sheepishly, accepted the photo...
...light as this moment was, it served to underscore a point Geithner will make many times on this trip and any other time he comes to Asia in his new job: this is the region of the world, more than any other, that helped shape Geithner's worldview. His father Peter was a senior executive running Asia programs for the Ford Foundation, and as a boy Geithner lived in India and Thailand. In college he studied both Mandarin and Japanese, and as he told the students this morning, his two summers in Beijing (he came after his junior year...