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...exchange of cash for paper shares at a local tea shop. Think of it as an amorphous eBay for speculators, an ad hoc gray market that sprouted spontaneously from the pent-up desire among the Vietnamese to cash in on the country's economic boom. "It's the Wild West," says Noritaka Akamatsu, the World Bank's lead financial economist in Hanoi...
...coast up to 80 miles, well outside the atmosphere. For 4 min., the six passengers (now astronauts!) can unstrap and float weightless around the cabin. Earth will look like a shiny ball with white swirls surrounded by a totally black sky. Diving back into the atmosphere will be a wild ride, peaking at nearly 6 Gs--twice the rush you feel on the average roller coaster. Rutan's genius is his "carefree re-entry" design: SpaceShipTwo folds up its wings for re-entry then transforms into a conventional glider for a gentle slide home to the runway...
...Afghanistan in 1986 who have come back to life on the gray rocky roadway where they died. In an enormous tableau--the picture is 7 1/2 ft. tall and almost 14 ft. wide--they awaken to discover their own mangled flesh in shock, grief, sleepy-eyed indifference and also wild-eyed amusement...
With so many of these works being shown publicly for the first time, film and art fans will get a good look at how the quotidian inspires this multimedia auteur's wild imagination. Says Lynch, "I just want people to have an experience." Indeed we will. www.fondation.cartier.com
...frustrated with how we finished the game,” said Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91, adding, “We’ve just got to play a little smarter, especially that late.”A Bears penalty at 3:15 touched off a wild, six-goal, 11-penalty opening frame. Harvard took advantage of its extra man, with junior Mike Taylor slamming home a perfect feed from freshman Doug Rogers to put the Crimson up 1-0.It was Harvard’s first special-teams goal in its last 17 power plays, but it would...