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...that he would lose his vision in his early teens, excelling as an athlete was the result of accepting his disability rather than denying it. Growing up with two brothers in Hong Kong and then Weston, Conn., he was always an athletic kid, a tough gamer who developed a bump-and-grind one-on-one basketball game that allowed him to work his way close to the hoop. He was, his father Ed says, "a pretty normal kid. While bike riding, he might have run into a few more parked cars than other kids, but we didn't dwell...
...that he would lose his vision in his early teens, excelling as an athlete was the result of accepting his disability rather than denying it. Growing up with two brothers in Hong Kong and then Weston, Conn., he was always an athletic kid, a tough gamer who developed a bump-and-grind one-on-one basketball game that allowed him to work his way close to the hoop. He was, his father Ed says, "a pretty normal kid. While bike riding, he might have run into a few more parked cars than other kids, but we didn't dwell...
...toward saying that police surveillance is not a search." Giving a Charmin-like squeeze to a bus passenger's soft-sided luggage was found last year to be not okay (in a 7-2 decision written by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, of all people), "but that was a bump in the road," Kamisar said. "The Court has almost rolled over and played dead on the Fourth Amendment because of the drug...
Beleaguered Project ADAPT has hit yet another bump on the long and winding road towards updating the University’s administrative computer systems...
...network execs blithely assumed that they didn't have much to lose in a strike, they're fooling themselves. (OK, so they probably are.) Even with the short-term bump in the networks' ratings compared with cable that followed "Millionaire," the overall trend is not in favor of the networks, which have steadily lost share to the rest of the zillion-channel universe, with no reason to expect to gain much back...