Word: climbing
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...would never get closer.“I thought the same thing that happened to us in New Haven [on Feb. 8] happened again here,” Amaker said. “We turned it over out in the middle of the floor and they were able to climb the backboard and get second chance opportunities and get energy from those two aspects of the game. And that really doomed us.”Trailing 29-27, Yale sharpshooter Eric Flato drained a three from the left side to give the Bulldogs a lead they would never relinquish.A...
...Officer dispatched to Hollis Hall North to take a report of suspicious activity. Officer arrived and spoke to the reporting party who said that they observed an individual attempting to climb up the fire escape. The reporting party said that they spoke to the individual who said they were attempting to locate a friend. The reporting party said that they then left the area. Officer searched the area for the individual with negative results. Officer reports there were several screens that were damaged and lying on the fire escape. Operations was notified of the incident...
Gecko footpads are covered with millions of tiny “nanopillars” that can stick to almost anytype of material, enabling the lizards to cling to surfaces, scale walls, and climb trees. Karp and Langer sculpted their biorubber in the shape of these nanopillars and coated it with a sugar-based glue...
...crew loaded gasoline into the generator for the second time that week, Emeruwa was still as cool and confident as ever. “In Nollywood, we don’t count the walls,” he says. “We’ve learned to climb them.” Truer words were seldom spoken. Directors in Hollywood and Bollywood, currently the first and second largest film industries in the world, hardly have to worry whether an ambulance will get stuck in the dirt and stall during their final day of shooting. But like the title...
...Iraq was unpopular, of course, and 63% of respondents also believed that Bush's peremptory militarism had made America less secure; 75% wanted to work to improve relations with Iran through diplomacy rather than threats. If those attitudes hold, McCain's rude bellicosity faces an uphill climb. It is likely, of course, that the numbers will melt in the heat of a campaign, especially when words like victory and patriotism are invoked, but for a moment in Doha it was possible to believe that the distance between the U.S. and Islamic worlds was closing a bit. Or, as a Libyan...