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...season where he earned the ECAC Rookie of the Year Award with a 3.18 goals against average. He single-handedly kept Harvard in many games last year that could have been blowouts. He has exceptional poise had reflexes in net, and a season of experience in the ECAC pressure cooker can do nothing but help him this year...
...Born and reared in Long Beach, Calif., the son of a chemist-turned-businessman father and a schoolteacher mother, he majored in biology at Yale and later did some graduate work in neurophysiology. Eventually switching to medical school at U.C. Davis, he decided to study emergency medicine, a pressure-cooker specialty that suited his go-go personality. "It's practicing medicine on the run," he says. "It's about making instantaneous decisions...
Carpenter-McMillan says she's just encouraging Jones to follow her instincts, but that may not be prudent in such a pressure-cooker case. "Can a nonlawyer steer this vessel to port, or is Paula going to go down with the ship?" asks feminist attorney Gloria Allred. Carpenter-McMillan says she's looking for a new lawyer to take the case, "one that I feel really good with." And who might that lawyer be? Carpenter-McMillan denies that her husband William, a personal-injury attorney, will now take over. But then she chirps, "Wait till my husband demands pictures...
...case you're entertaining the U.S. Army), fully equipped with side burners, wok ring and built-in smoker system, for a cool $4,500. Another nifty piece of equipment (for less than $400) is a smoker called the Big Green Egg. This ceramic oval, based on the traditional Japanese cooker called a kamado, uses no water yet keeps food moist and can smoke a turkey in just two hours...
...carbonation in an opened bottle of soda. As this happens, the magma takes on a foamier consistency, increasing its speed and mobility. When this scalding froth rises high enough to make contact with subterranean water, the water flashes into steam, turning the whole hellish mix into a natural pressure cooker. Finally, the explosively pressurized magma blasts out of the earth in an eruption that can send rocks, ash and gases flying out at near supersonic speeds. "The driving force of an eruption is gas," says Tilling. "Pressure builds up, some plug gives, and the whole thing goes...