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Lace up your sneakers and run around the block. Do that about 10 times and it's a mile. Do that 100 times and it's an ultra-marathon. Now run those 100 miles up a mountain, or in the woods at night, or in a desert so hot that the soles of your shoes begin to melt. Sound like fun? Chris McDougall, author of Born to Run, thinks so. What started as a simple quest to explain a running injury took the former war correspondent deep into the world of ultra-running - and into the world of the Tarahumara...
...family sank everything into a home it bought a year and a half ago, which has since lost $150,000 in value. A single mom faces foreclosure. A laid-off father of two says, "Unless we win this, we could be the next for SALE sign on this block." (See the top 10 TV series...
From then on, Harvard played like a team worthy of a league championship, using Weissbourd’s and freshman outside hitter Matt Jones’ hitting abilities to score, and juniors Soren Rosier and Erik Kuld’s prowess on the defensive end to block...
...prices could still block a recovery. Just a month ago, no one believed that gas could possibly hit $3. A heavy summer driving season and forecasts of a cold winter in the northern hemisphere would transform the psychology of crude trading and make the majority opinion that oil will rise throughout the year, whereas in the early spring nearly everyone was convinced that it would fall...
...time, the GOP tried to block Sotomayor's nomination to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals because they feared she was being lined up for a spot on the Supreme Court. It took a piece of congressional sleight of hand to hold up that nomination for over a year, but in the end, the Republicans had to cave, and Sotomayor was approved. (See pictures of Judge Sonia Sotomayor...