Word: underground
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Leagues like MLG have their roots in pre-broadband underground circuits, in which players traveled the country to compete against one another. Sepso and his business partner were both sports and gaming fans, and in the nascent underground scene they saw the makings of something more. "It looked to us like an early NASCAR or an early X-Games," says Sepso, who at the time was running a broadband company. "It was compelling, so we bought in, and we got to know a lot of these young guys...
...most popular requests. Leathers can be quite obliging: he built a wooden Alamo, equipped with an armadillo-shaped drawbridge, for a Dallas elementary school and fashioned a crude telephone system out of three-inch plastic piping for Hamilton, Va. Safety considerations, however, usually force him to reject water slides, underground tunnels, bike racetracks and skateboard ramps...
...room of Azerbaijan's sprawling oil terminal near the capital, Baku, Bala Mirza sits peering at a fuzzy map on a computer monitor. The outline of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey looks like little more than a jumble of hills and farming towns. But for the engineer, 41, what lies underground has rocked his world: a new 1,100-mile oil pipeline, which in recent months has tied this tiny country on the edge of the Caspian Sea to the huge Western market. "There is a lot of oil and a lot of money," says Mirza, who spent 14 years earning...
...considered by 138 local communities, along with many states. She is concerned that the new laws punish responsible pet owners and breeders, and could even jeopardize the existence of some breeds. In Denver, for example, pitbulls are outlawed completely. This has forced owners to flee the city or go underground, where they keep their dogs behind closed shades and take them out only under the cloak of darkness. In 2006 alone, more than 800 of the dogs known for their ferocity have been rounded up in Denver, most of them destroyed...
...Christmas: That was the time frame for substantial progress set by U.S. envoy Christopher Hill going in the six-party talks that reconvened in Beijing Monday, after having been stalled for over a year, during which North Korea proved it has some form of nuclear weapon by conducting an underground test...