Word: weather
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...zeal is directed mainly at Wii Sports. The Wii Channels network for weather, shopping and even surfing the Web, had not yet launched, and other games, such as Legend of Zelda title and Excite Truck, looked okay but didn't hook me. My hope is that Nintendo continues to develop games like Wii Sports-it's easy to dream up Wii versions of other activities, from fishing to snowmobiling...
...said. “[We just had to] stick to what we have done all season long.”The Crimson came out of its halftime huddle with a vengeance and attacked Binghamton hard, scoring the tying goal 12 minutes after the start of the half. Although the weather conditions helped to keep the momentum clearly on one side of the field, it never led directly to a goal.“I don’t know if [the conditions] affected the outcome,” Marco said. “I don’t think...
...teams have their own versions of software that analyzes thousands of variables--from weather and road conditions to fuel levels and competitors' probable actions--and how they may interact to affect a car's performance, before and during a race. The program spits out possible options and assesses the chances of success. Now that racetrack technology is coming to the equally fast-paced world of business...
...Malaysian refugee camp before making it to Edmonton, Alberta in 1979. It was in Canada that Lu met his wife, Phuong. Like Lu, Phuong was ethnically Chinese but an immigrant from Saigon. In fact, both had initially wished to wind up in Australia—for the weather, of course—and had picked Canada, with its relatively lenient policy for sponsoring families, as their second choice. The pair was married in 1984, the middle of a decade that belonged to the local Edmonton Oilers. The franchise won five Stanley Cups in seven years, and Lu was sold...
...Nature obliged: Sunday dawned wet, cool and clean in Baghdad after overnight showers rinsed the city of several layers of desert sand. Late in the morning, Ahmed Hussein, a government-employed street sweeper, looked up into the overcast and still-rumbling skies and nodded approvingly. "This is the right weather for a day like this," he said. "The rain is God's blessing upon the verdict...