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...pinpoint the reason she feels the need to talk about her menstrual cycle with people she runs into on the street might be useful. Visiting a strip club is not going to help her become a fuller person—unless she’s looking for a backup plan to investment banking, in which case she should make a detour to the gym, too. The only value in FemSex, it seems, is in parody...
Tobe, now a senior, had been relegated to backup status again, with freshman Kyle Richter starting the last 10 games of the 2007 campaign. And once more, Tobe emerged as the consolation game starter...
Just call him the playmaker. As the only starting freshman on the Harvard men’s volleyball team, right side hitter Gil Weintraub is already carving himself a powerful position on the Crimson.Filling in as the backup setter for captain Dave Fitz, Weintraub plays a unique role on the team, switching between hitting and setting positions.“It’s definitely a totally different mentality going from hitting to setting,” Weintraub said. “Hitting, you go up hit as hard as you can, and so it’s a single...
...holder - these days usually a team's punter like the Bears' Brad Maynard and the Colts' Hunter Smith, though occasionally a backup quarterback - must catch the ball and place it in the exact spot the picky kicker wants it. The whole process, from the snap to the boot of the ball, must happen in a flash. "The industry average is 1.3 seconds," says New York Giants long snapper Ryan Kuehl...
...built by independent consortia of private telecom companies and investors, and network design has been driven by economics. Reliability is important, of course, but intercontinental cable systems can cost billions of dollars, so they tend to connect to countries where demand is greatest and they often lack costly parallel backup circuits that would be underused most of the time. Vulnerabilities exist, and the recent quake found a chink in the armor. It struck in the Luzon Strait south of Taiwan, an area that has an unusual concentration of major undersea cables. "It's quite an exceptional event to have...