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...soldiers, ex-police or graduates of martial-arts academies, they find work through friends or former teachers. Ding Zhongmin, a kickboxing expert who runs the Yingcai Bodyguard Training Center in Nanjing, says he schools 100 bodyguards a year in everything from punching to "polite conversation and what you should wear in an office." Clients often hire Ding and his students to resolve business disputes that in many countries would be dealt with by the police or resolved in court. He and his crew recently rescued a coal-mine owner in Xi'an who had been kidnapped by a colleague...
...Slavs!”, written by Tony Kushner (“Angels in America”) and directed by Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks ’06, literalizes this conundrum. The actors portraying the ancient “giants” of the Party wear stilts to tower over others, and one topples over the dead. One character prays for vodka from a religious icon with Lenin’s face pasted over the saint’s—and her prayers are answered. In vignettes such as these, the play paints a picture of Russia during the collapse...
Goin' Coconuts Inventor: Greg Haggquist, Traptek Availability: January 2006, shirts and shorts, $150 each To Learn More: cannondale.com Cannondale's upcoming Carbon LE line of cycling wear is cut from a new kind of cloth: moisture-wicking, odor-absorbing, UV-ray-protective polyester. What makes it so? Carbon from coconuts. The husks are heated to 1,600°F; the activated carbon (also found in water and air filters) is infused into yarns that make up the material. The carbon particles, kept activated by a patented process, create a porous surface that traps nasty smells and harmful rays and causes...
...money earned from the car sale was small, but it showed that the new Governor was determined to find savings anywhere she could, from having all state agencies join together to bid for computers to asking state housekeeping workers to wear their own pants instead of government-issued ones. Through spending cuts, fee increases and some borrowing, Sebelius was able to balance Kansas' budget in her first year in office without raising taxes or cutting funding for education...
...Succah (a temporary, wooden dwelling) to celebrate the Succoth holiday. Miraculously—or so the Bellangas believe—God provides them with a Succah, $1,000, and two guests to share their celebration. These guests are actually escaped convicts and their rude behavior quickly begins to wear out the Bellangas’ Job-like patience. Believing the guests are God’s test, the Bellangas continue to house the guests to the point of their marriage’s dissolution. The Orthodox religious maxims that fill each frame (i.e. “there?...