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With the game tied at 58 and just over three minutes remaining, CRLS was forced to heave up a three-pointer as the shot clock neared zero. It fell short, but Ford, in an amazing show of athleticism, caught the ball in mid-air and put in an reverse lay-up to put the Falcons ahead for good...
...game, the movie plot has Croft setting out in search of an ancient and mystical artifact: in this case, the two components of the Clock of Ages, a dusty device that tracks the alignment of the planets and may help solve the mystery of her father's death. But there are changes in the way Croft goes about her business. Far from being a full-time tomb raider, she now has a day job as a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist (why or when she has time to do this is unclear, but cameras and prints are scattered around Croft Manor...
...changes in all aspects of life--from daily activity, to the entertainment industry, to politics--he endeavors to prove that we humans are like Alice in Wonderland's habitually late white rabbit, a race of "door close" button pushers and multitaskers who cannot win the race against the clock. What are some of today's time savers? Answering machines and computers used by 411 operators edit messages to speed the conveyance of information; elevators are being made to move faster; appliances such as microwaves shave minutes off the daily routine. But as soon as Gleick provides these examples of efficient...
Then, with 36 seconds remaining, Harvard thought it would just have to run out its 35-second shot clock and escape with the victory. However, the Crimson lost the ball with less than five seconds on the clock and a Brown player began streaking towards McCarthy. Just as she was about to shoot, however, Magnuson came out of nowhere to pressure her as time ran out, allowing Harvard to preserve its undefeated record...
Turner said he conceived of CNN, the 24-hour cable news service, in 1970, when his busy schedule kept him from seeing the six o'clock news...