“Are you ready?” shouts Josh Ball, manager of GameStop No. 1,782 in Euless, Texas, near Dallas. He’s standing before more than 100 fidgety young men and women lined up in the strip-mall parking lot outside his store. They’ve been here for hours in the warm spring air, waiting for midnight when the latest version of [...]
Sumo wrestlers were the main inspiration behind Wii Fit, Nintendo’s latest attempt at getting you off the couch when you play video games.
Because they are so huge, sumo wrestlers need two scales to weigh themselves. Wii Fit’s balance board works kind of like two scales fused together, which, as its designers found, makes it instantly [...]
“With Toughman, it’s a ‘If you want to do it, you can do it’ type thing,” said Dr. Robert Cantu, a Massachusetts neurosurgeon critical of the tournaments. “The potential for injury is much higher than it would be if there weren’t that mismatch of experience and training.”And, in Arkansas, the state Athletic Commission hasn’t had [...]
LOWRIDERS are riding high. For instance, the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles has just opened an exhibition entitled �La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels.� It includes 21 cars, several bicycles, pedal cars, scale models, photographs and other images from the lowrider culture of Los Angeles.
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LOWRIDERS are riding high. For instance, the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles has just opened an exhibition entitled �La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels.� It includes 21 cars, several bicycles, pedal cars, scale models, photographs and other images from the lowrider culture of Los Angeles.
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She told of how three of her friends came to her parents’ home and soon demanded money from her mother. Then she described how one of the men, Renaldo “Pooney” McGirth, shot Diane Miller, 63, in the chest. “I was crying,” Sheila Miller said. “I freaked out. He just shot [...]
LOWRIDERS are riding high. For instance, the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles has just opened an exhibition entitled �La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels.� It includes 21 cars, several bicycles, pedal cars, scale models, photographs and other images from the lowrider culture of Los Angeles.
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LOWRIDERS are riding high. For instance, the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles has just opened an exhibition entitled �La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels.� It includes 21 cars, several bicycles, pedal cars, scale models, photographs and other images from the lowrider culture of Los Angeles.
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