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When A.J. Longmaid spent his boyhood summers on Spectacle Island, a private 4.5-acre (1.8 hectare) refuge off the coast of Bar Harbor, Maine, his family had no electricity or pressurized water. He read by kerosene lamp and showered by pouring a bucket of freezing water over his head. Today Longmaid, 30, not only has hot showers and electric power on the island but also can make cell-phone calls, watch television and surf the Net via satellite. "People don't even realize they aren't connected to the mainland when they're here because everything is the same," says...
...what you want about the glories of growing old--the gaining of wisdom, the drooling of grandbabies, the half-off tickets to matinees of The Bucket List. When it comes to the physical manifestations of advanced years, though, there ain't no euphemizing the indignities. Knees go. Teeth crumble. Ear hairs sprout. Or as Charla Krupp, author of the new best seller How Not to Look Old, puts it, "Aging sucks...
...Unger with another interception down low, heaves it Tom Brady style to McGeary who drops in the bucket for two. Columbia jump right back at the Crimson's throats and makes the quick basket. I don't how many points they've scored on fast break opportunities, but Amaker must be worried about Harvard's lack of hustle. [Columbia 39, Harvard...
...sophomore guard Jeremy Lin had the hot hand all night and was up to the task. Harvard called an isolation play for its sophomore threat out of the timeout and Lin responded beautifully, starting to his left and then crossing over to his right before laying in the tying bucket with nine seconds to go. “We wanted to put it in his hands to see if he could create for himself or others,” Amaker said. “He’s our best creator, our best playmaker, and he?...
...nine seconds remaining to tie the score at 61. Princeton’s Koncz missed a driving layup on the other end, and two Tiger tip-in attempts went in and out as the buzzer sounded.“Lin was tremendous for us offensively, with the game-tying bucket sending us to overtime, and [with] his ability to get to the basket,” Amaker said.The Crimson owned overtime.Just 22 seconds in, Lin drove to score on a short jumper in the lane in overtime’s first possession. The Crimson struck again on a McGeary three...