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...last year’s Springfest! The NBA is in a strange state right now, where past stars Michael Jordan, Karl Malone, John Stockton and David Robinson continue to share the spotlight with now veteran All-Stars Allen Iverson, Kobe Bryant and Tim Duncan. It reminds me of the WWF (I refuse to ‘get the F out’), where Hulk Hogan and Rick Flair stick around to “nurture” the next generation of wrestling superstars until fans respect the new guys...

Author: By Alexander M. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Of Darren, Duncan and Dissin' | 10/30/2002 | See Source »

...their well-hyped guest the Rock, a World Wrestling Federation (WWF) hero, never showed...

Author: By Kyle J. Berkman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Strokes Punish ’Poonster In Go-Kart Around Castle | 10/3/2002 | See Source »

...frequent disasters made the government look ineffectual, and that forced Premier Zhu Rongji, himself a Hunan native, to take action in 1998. According to Liang Haitang, a Hunan-based supervisor for WWF, an international conservation organization, Zhu dreamed up "the wisest flood control policy ever issued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Water World | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

...pumping station and left the dike to rot. The wetland she had once labored to destroy has returned to water; where her old house once stood, her son has floated a huge cage to raise fish. Migratory birds, such as rare swans and spoonbills, have returned to the area. WWF lent Hu enough money to buy a sow, which will give birth in three weeks. Her new ash-colored cement house is hardly palatial?there's a gaping hole where the front door should be because the family ran out of money to finish building. But for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Water World | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

...flood plain. When the government breaches a dike, villagers sometimes repair it so they can continue sowing. "These lands are only half restored," says Yu Xiubo of the Beijing-based Chinese Academy of Sciences. But the program is still new. "It takes time," says Jim Harkness, China director for WWF, "for people to lose their nervousness at giving up rice farming." China may have helped create the flood problem that plagues its central region each summer?but at least it has a plan to hold the waters back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Water World | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

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