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...freestyle event. Out of a field of 64 athletes, Mills tied for 37th with Texas A&M swimmer Marissa Jasek with a time of 1:47.35, less than a second slower than her qualifying time of 1:46.39.When the sun rose Saturday morning, Clarke stood ready on the starting block for her last race as a junior. In the 1650-yard freestyle event, out of 43 swimmers, Clarke placed 28th in a time of 16:19.17.Watching Clarke compete, Mills prepared to attack her final race of the season. In her third event of the meet, the 200-yard butterfly, Mills...
...mystique of the Chevrolet Camaro. A macho machine if ever there was one, the Camaro was launched in the 1967 model year in response to Ford's fabulous Mustang. The Camaro made waves quickly, because buyers had the option of muscling it up with GM's big-block V8 engines, turning a sporty 4-seat roadster into a street monster and track regular. Mustang had the name; but Camaro had the horses. Like many of Detroit's muscle cars, though, Camaro was doomed by paunchier styling and performance over the years, and the car's blue-collar fans drifted away...
...Soghoian. “They have the capability and the money. They should prove the programs merits instead of forcing it upon us.” Soghoian said the program is not yet perfect—with over 40 behavioral advertising companies on the internet, TACO has yet to block all ad tracking. “Hopefully, that will all be done within the next year,” he said. Soghoian noted that he has already talked to Microsoft and Mozilla about incorporating TACO into the popular web browsers Internet Explorer and Firefox. Mark A. Fusunyan...
...started my career more than two decades ago as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, working with churches to help neighborhoods that had been devastated by plant closings. Block by block, we fought to create job-training programs, improve housing conditions and help people live their lives with some measure of dignity. And eventually, I realized that I wasn't just helping other people - through service, I also found a community that embraced me, a church to belong to and the direction I'd been seeking. Through service, I found that my own story fit into...
...similar online double entendres designed to flout the government's role as Big Brother. As one Chinese blogger told the Times, even with the most modern technology trying to hold them back, people will find a way to express themselves. "It is like a water flow - if you block one direction, it flows to other directions, or overflows...