After eight long days shooting stories in Humboldt County, our tired PBS Suburban gave it up at a gas station in the tiny agricultural hamlet of Maxwell, Calif. Even the minimart attendant heard the tensioner pully bearings seize and shred the serpentine belt that…
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American Sumo
MUSCLE & FITNESS – Trent Sabo is in the moving business. He moves grand pianos, iron weights and 500-pound sumo wrestlers. And, on occasion, he himself is moved. For instance, in the summer of 2003 at the U.S. Sumo Open in Manhattan Beach, California,…
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Unbreakable
MAXIMUM FITNESS – You’re not Dwayne Wade or Lance Armstrong, and neither are we. But when our bodies break down, you Dwayne, Lance and I are bandaged brothers, with the same roster of breaks and bruises that account for 80 percent of all sports…
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To Persuade People, Tell Them a Story
WALL STREET JOURNAL – Paul Smith had 20 minutes to sell the CEO of Procter & Gamble, and his team of managers, on new market-research techniques for which Mr. Smith’s department wanted funding. As associate director of P&G‘s market research, Mr. Smith had spent three weeks…
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The Power of Boing Boing’s Bloggers
BBC WORLD SERVICE – Boing Boing claims that a recent boycott of Bank Of America by its bloggers resulted in $1m being taken from the bank in closed accounts. The boycott occurred after clothing salesman Matthew Shinnick attempted to cash a cheque he had…
