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...first half, all ten players handled the ball as if it weighed twenty pounds. Most outside shots merely ticked the front rim, if they reached the basket at all. Neither team broke 40 per cent from the floor while the referees tallied 31 fouls...
Curry hit the first half of a one-and-one bonus before UConn's Cathy Bochain, who netted a cool 19 points on the evening, raced to the basket for two. Harvard quickly turned the ball over, and with 12 seconds on the clock, the Huskies had a chance to knot the score...
Home fans have learned to expect Smith to score from under the basket. Smith has patented the "gymnastic layup": team-mates feed the ball to the fleet forward who waits--apparently out of position--underneath the net. In one quick motion, Smith arches her back and releases the ball, banking it against the boards and into the webbing. She has been so successful with this shot that recently B.U. put three players against Smith to block her from getting inside...
...inhabitants' purchasing power, measured by the amount of goods and services that can be bought with their incomes. This was calculated by taking the average pay in a group of twelve common occupations -among them teaching, office work and construction-and comparing it with the cost of a "basket" of standard household expenses. These included rent, food, clothing and public transportation, as well as the cost of a wide range of services such as getting a haircut or having a suit cleaned. Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles topped the buying-power list. New York, the only other...
...most painless places to live are those where the rise in prices has been more than matched by the rise in incomes. It takes a Chicagoan just 75¼ hours to earn enough to buy the survey's basket of goods and services. For the same items, a Londoner must work twice as long. Prices for a great many things are simply lower in the U.S. than they are elsewhere. For instance, a cartful of 39 supermarket items that costs $135 in Los Angeles and $172 in New York sells for $225 in Zurich and an appalling...