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...Only their '03 exit - ushered by a Wallabies unit that had staggered into the semis - could be attributed to the Kiwis crumbling. Former All Black Eric Rush says he saw that loss coming after speaking to a few of the players in the lead-up. "There was a lot of pressure on them, a lot of expectation, and the way they dealt with that was to treat it like just another game," says Rush. "And that's exactly how they played it" - only to be swamped by an opponent high on fervor...
...After closing CBGB, Kristal packed up much of the club's furniture, equipment and decor and placed it in a Brooklyn storage unit. If he had lived to open another, he planned on making it look as much as possible like the original - tight walls adorned with a cacophony of bumper stickers and concert announcements, a mini lounge area, and the tiniest of stages. In the meantime, he auctioned off artifacts on eBay that didn't make the cut. An 11" x 15" emergency light box decorated with stickers sold for $310. A 12" x 13.5" framed section of CBGB...
...show does more than highlight the horrors of war: it also captures the minutiae of daily life. A claustrophobic tent reconstructs the unit's sleeping quarters, replete with its mosquito nets, toiletries, uncomfortable cots, a portable shower and the overbearing scent of plastic sheets. Scattered across the room are letters and personal paraphernalia, donated by more than 150 soldiers...
...which is why the Chinese, on the 11th day of every month, now practice queuing in preparation for the 2008 Olympics. They have their work cut out because there is something in the cosmos that does not love a line. As Emerson wrote: "Line in nature is not found/ Unit and universe are round...
...Boeing. Total orders so far this year show Boeing with 701, 13 more than Airbus. In the weeks following the highly publicized 787 rollout on July 8, Boeing posted its largest quarterly profit in nearly four years, at $1.1 billion. And for the first time, its commercial-airplane unit earned more than its defense side; half-year revenues increased 15%, to $16.3 billion, with a 13% increase on airplane deliveries over 2006. (Defense revenues increased 5%, to $15.7 billion.) Boeing's backlog of orders increased 47%, to a record $208 billion, more than seven times the unit's 2006 revenues...