Word: benching
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...Nguyen Thu Phuong, 18, has been studying for more than a year for the exams, and was poring over a few last-minute math equations on a bench shortly before testing began. Her mother, anxiously fanning the girl as she studied, once fought for the communist side in the Vietnam War and had recently retired from a state-run factory, but she dreams her daughter can someday work in banking or finance. "It's not like the old days," she said. "If children don't have a university degree, it's really difficult to get a good...
...eventful week for the Harvard women's hockey community, one former Crimson star traded in her skates for a clipboard and a coaching position with another program, and head coach Katey Stone filled the vacant spots on her own bench with two veteran assistants...
...fourth Indiana Jones movie due next May, LaBeouf is blowing up faster than a stunt car on a Michael Bay set. In an age when potential action heroes seem to be either rugged '80s relics like Ford and Sylvester Stallone or sensitive thespians willing to double up on their bench presses like Tobey Maguire and Orlando Bloom, LaBeouf is that rarest of screen creatures, the scrappy kid next door. "Shia is within everyone's reach," says Spielberg. "He's every mother's son, every father's spitting image, every young kid's best pal and every girl's possible dream...
...Kevin Durant: That really hurt the series. Without them they can't win. But rules are rules-if I made a rule up that said they can't come off the bench, they can't come off the bench. They are just teaching them discipline...
...TIME: Your failure to bench press 185-lbs. during a workout has some people questioning your strength. What's your reaction...