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With two outs and runners on first and second, the Eagles' Julie Ulbrich laced a base hit into leftfield. As Perrotta chugged around third and headed home, Dunn came up and fired a bullet to the plate. Teller fielded the ball cleanly and applied the tag to cut down Perrotta and keep the Crimson within striking distance...
Leading the way for Harvard was Buttles, who clinched the game for the Crimson by firing a bullet over Penn goalie Matt Schroeder's right shoulder in overtime for the victory...
...surprisingly, the magic contraceptive bullet was an instant best seller. Within five years, 5 million women were taking it, a number that exploded over the next decade as baby boomers reached sexual maturity. Better formulations were soon developed to minimize the danger of blood clots and other worrisome side effects. But some health risks could not be foreseen, and as the 1980s dawned, bringing with it AIDS and a sharp increase in other sexually transmitted diseases, the smart new sexual freedom that the Pill permitted started to seem not so smart. As a result, the humble condom made a comeback...
Maybe I'm coming out of left field in busting everyone's chops here, but this is really starting to become a thorn in my side. I walk into the magazine office, and everywhere I look, someone's dropping the ball, passing the buck or dodging a bullet. And now I'm starting to realize that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Our writers, though still wet behind the ears, are starting to endlessly shoot this shit as well. We don't want to bite the hand that feeds us, but soon enough we'll be digging...
...temporarily--if expensively--reconfigured to provide extra grounding. Astronauts planning a space walk can stay indoors until the danger passes. "Each sigmoid is like a loaded gun," says solar researcher Alphonse Sterling, who helped make the discovery. Now, it seems, humanity may have a better chance of dodging the bullet...