I can just see one of them standing with their back against the wall next to a door, and suddenly jumping around in front and gunning down whatevers there.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Bra producers have been forced to offer bigger cup-sizes in China because improved nutrition is busting all previous chest measurement records.
"It's so different from the past when most young women would wear A- or B-cup bras," Triumph brand saleswoman Zhang Jing told the Shanghai Daily from the Landmark Plaza of China's commercial hub.
"You...never expect those thin women to have such nice figures if they are not plastic."
The report, seen on the daily's Web site Tuesday, said that the Hong Kong-based lingerie firm Embry Group no longer produces A-cups for larger chest circumferences and has increased production of C-, D- and E-cup bras to meet pressing demand.
The Beijing Institute of Clothing Technology released a report last week saying the average chest circumference of Chinese women has risen by nearly 1 cm (0.4 inch) to 83.53 cm (32.89 inches) since the early 1990s, the daily said.
This phenomenon, it said, was due to women eating more nutritiously and taking part in more sport.
Similar growth in the average height of children prompted a rethink last year in Beijing on the height allowance for free bus rides.
One thing you must take into account, though, is that the Chinese measure cup sizes on a different scale from what we use in the West. Their B-cup is equivalent to our A-cup, their C-cup to our B-cup, and so on.
Five Mexican children were killed when a large metal cross they were praying at was struck by lightning in central Mexico, local media reported Monday.Five children between 9 and 16 years old died and several others suffered burns when lightning struck a white-painted metal cross set on a hill in the town of Santa Maria del Rio early on Sunday, according to two newspaper reports.
“The lightning went straight into them and killed them instantly,” local Red Cross chief Eduardo Suarez told the daily El Norte.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Montgomery Maulers owner Jamie LaMunyon had an emphatic response to her players' demand for back wages: You're fired.
LaMunyon said she will field a replacement team for the National Indoor Football League game at Osceola, Fla., on Friday, and next week at home.
"I have cut all the football players," she told the Montgomery Advertiser in a story Thursday. "Fans will see a whole new team next week in Montgomery. Maybe they can win a game."
The mass firings came after four Maulers held a news conference at a local attorney's office Wednesday saying the team wouldn't travel to Osceola if LaMunyon didn't pay money they claimed she owed them.
Attorney Donald Jackson said some players were owed as much as $800 or $1,000 and the average was about $650.
"In all my years of a sports-based legal practice, I have never seen anything quite like this," Jackson said. "But it's not really surprising. The owners of this team are apparently in dire financial straits. Whether you call this a termination or a refusal to pay, it's all the same. What she's doing now is grasping at straws."
LaMunyon disputed the players' claims that some have not been paid for as long as four or five weeks.
"They have missed one pay check," said LaMunyon, who already replaced the head coach this season. "The league requires that I hold their last pay check because (the players) have a couple of thousand dollars worth of equipment."
The players' checks bounced earlier this month, which LaMunyon said was just a mistake in her checking account.
"I don't know what happened," she said. "But immediately when I found out, I sent $5,000 in to fix it. If there's a player who hasn't been paid, I'm sorry, but that happens everywhere."
The Maulers are 1-4, and coach David Daniels resigned and was replaced by Kelvin Stokes two weeks ago.
Asked about Stokes' job security, LaMunyon responded: "The coach hasn't been silly. The coaches have been very good."
Stokes informed the team about the firings before Wednesday's practice.
LaMunyon said the new team will be composed of players "from all over."
"There are 100 ball players to replace anyone that doesn't want to play football," LaMunyon said. "And these guys don't want to."
Physicist finds top corner is goalkeeper's 'unsaveable zone'
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Ken Bray, a theoretical physicist with a doctorate in quantum science, has some advice for any player taking a penalty: Aim for the top corner.
It may sound obvious, but Bray's advice is backed by scientific research that he says can help players in everything from taking free kicks to saving penalties.
"Science is important in terms of winning matches," said Bray, author of a book on the science behind soccer called "How to Score."
Bray has analyzed memorable games over the past 50 years and applied research in physics, biology, computing and psychology to the beautiful game.
Using biomechanics to calculate the absolute reach of a goalkeeper diving to try to save a penalty, Bray has identified an area near the posts and in the top corners where the goalkeeper cannot reach as the "unsaveable zone."
"If a player were to place the ball in those regions, which are 28-30 percent of the goal area, there is not a sniff that the goalkeeper can do to get across to them," explained Bray, from the University of Bath in England.
He advised goalkeepers to move before the kick is taken because if they wait, the ball will be halfway to the goal before they can react.
He said that where the striker places and points his standing foot is a good clue to where the ball will go.
"It's been shown that in about 85 percent of cases the direction in which that foot points is the direction of the shot," he told a news conference in London.
University of Bath you say, that's only half an hour away from me.
I'll go congratulate him for use of SCIENCE! next time I'm training in Bath Uni's dojo.
no, it was one of the original ones. even the crappy acting of natalie portman and hayden christensen cant ruin the original ones.
Greedo shooting first, a bunch of pointless, distracting CGI creatures in the background, a completely redundant Jabba scene, rings around the Alderaan and original Death Star explosions, Boba Fett being redubbed, Vader having a pink lightsabre and a really terrible song sung by CGI aliens in Jabba's palace can, though.
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I can imagine that both of them play alot of counterstrike on their weekends.
"ff?"
Wonder what religion they were.
Players: You owe us money.
Coach: You're all fired.
Score one for SCIENCE!
I'll go congratulate him for use of SCIENCE! next time I'm training in Bath Uni's dojo.