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...gloomy December morning in Helsinki in 1997 when 26-year-old Vesku Paananen woke up with a hangover after a night of Koskenkorva vodka and beer. Paananen, a chief technology officer with new-media company Yomi Group, was jolted out of bed by the annoying ring tone of his Nokia 6110 mobile phone. "I didn't want to hear 'de de de de deeeee' ever again," Paananen recalls. "I wanted to hear Van Halen's Jump, and I was willing to pay for it." The technology was there to program mobile phones to play pop tunes rather than electronic bleeps...
...morning that he, Wade and two others were to summit, Edwards woke up at 16,000 ft. with altitude sickness; he had literally gone too far too fast. He urged the others to go on up without him. But descending from the top a few hours later, they ran into Edwards forcing himself up the trail alone. Swallowing his discomfort, he wanted to go all the way. And in the end, of course, he made...
Once—only once, he says—he woke up naked on a couch after a particularly wild night...
...other ROTC midshipmen have had to take on some exceptional tasks. During the year he had to wake up early twice weekly for 7:15 a.m. military science courses at MIT—which covered subjects ranging from military bearing to naval engineering—and sometimes he woke up even earlier for physical training (PT) with the marine midshipmen...
...Preakness was his most impressive outing yet. Smarty Jones--which was the nickname of Pat's mother--woke up to a steamy Baltimore day in which the temperature reached 84° by post time. He seemed untroubled by the heat or anything else for that matter, ignoring the reporters massed outside his stall as he hung his head over the door webbing to enjoy the breeze from a fan. "That's the way you want him," said stable manager Bill Foster. "The more relaxed, the better...