Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Ageless Herbs' Curing Pills, which profess to clear up a case of H1N1 • Swine Flu Protection Gloves from Emergency Disaster Systems, which would protect wearers from infection • Super Immune Booster from Wellness Resources, which claims to make you immune to the disease • Swine Flu Advisor - my personal favorite - an electronic device that claims to use "photobiotic energy" and "deeply penetrating mega-frequency life-force energy waves" to strengthen the immune system and prevent H1N1 infection...
...need plenty of the stuff, and bringing it all with them is out of the question. (A single pint of water weighs about a pound, and every pound you fly to the moon costs about $50,000.) The LRO, however, will not be traveling alone. Launched on the same booster will be another entire spacecraft known as the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS...
Harvard followed this victory with another confidence booster, thrashing Stony Brook, 12-4, on the Seawolves’ home turf. Recovering from an illness that kept him out of the Duke game, sophomore standout Dean Gibbons returned with a vengeance, finding the Stony Brook net four times. Senior Eric Posner also led the Crimson defensively, picking up four ground balls...
...second time this season. Her 6.02-meter leap in the long jump event earned her a share of second place, though a tie-breaker jump relegated her to third. “For [Brittan] to do that at the ECAC Championships going into NCAAs is a big confidence booster for her,” Saretsky said. And though the women’s 4x800-meter relay team finished eighth in the final yesterday, running the event in 9:11.98, the quad group of seniors Jan Ng and Aishlinn O’Callaghan, sophomore Thea Lee, and freshman Meghan Looney...
...great day for the team, a big confidence boost to know that we are the fastest team on the Charles,” said heavyweight varsity eight coxswain Jill Carlson. “The size of the margins are really telling, so that’s another confidence booster for us going into Sprints.” —Staff writer Alex Sopko can be reached at sopko@fas.harvard.edu...