Word: clockings
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...tosses up an airball with the shot clock running down. Crimson have not scored for three minutes. To whom does Harvard go to in crunch time when Lin is looking...
...Lions force a shot clock violation, while the crowd shouts "Give them the D!" Consensus is that Columbia fans are cleverer than Ithaca-ites...
...pushed to boost production of unmanned aircraft for use in intelligence work, only to run into the Air Force's long-standing love of manned fighters. But Gates' hunch was vindicated in Afghanistan and Iraq, where cheaper, unmanned Predator and Reaper drones have been flying around the clock but expensive F-22s have yet to appear. Air Force Major General Charles Dunlap Jr. has written that drones are "game-changing" because of their unprecedented ability to loiter for hours, waiting for the enemy to reveal himself--and then kill him with their weapons. And yet Dunlap's service remains wedded...
...Snowe isn't the only GOP Senator - or even the only one from Maine - who is getting room service from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. After working around the clock for a week with 20 of her Senate colleagues on a compromise stimulus measure, Susan Collins had all but given up. But early on the evening of Feb. 6, Senate majority leader Harry Reid invited her to his office. "I debated whether it was worth going," Collins recalls. "I figured they were just going to put pressure on us to accept their previous offer," which didn't shrink...
...Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat, Rock Around the Clock hit the top of the music charts, and John Dingell was elected to Congress. The 29-year-old lawyer won a special election to replace his father, who died in office, and won a full term of his own the following year. On Feb. 11- after 26 more elections- the Michigan Democrat became the longest-serving House member in U.S. history. Dingell, now 82, spoke with TIME about his early days in Washington, the crisis in the American automobile industry and how he does...