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It’s a little past eight in the morning, and Katharine T. Waterman ’09 is doing the high knee crawl across the floor of the gym, a fake M-16 cradled in her arms. It’s a drill she does over and over. Wait for the signal, race forward, drop to the ground. She drags herself ahead with her elbows, knees scraping against the floor. The hard rubber M-16 is heavier than it looks. Waterman woke up two hours ago to catch the 6:20 a.m. shuttle to MIT. She didn?...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All That She Can Be | 3/15/2006 | See Source »

...Given that, the best the Administration can hope for here is delay, and some artful revisions to the deal that give everyone enough cover to crawl back down out of their trees. Dubai's lobbyists are fingering amendments to the deal calling for additional proposals for greater background checks of managers and workers, as well as beefed-up security at the terminals if the deal is allowed to go through. That might be one way to salvage this operation. But it may already be too late for that band-aid, no matter how reasonable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Seaports Deal Is Caught Between Instinct and Intellect | 2/23/2006 | See Source »

...with Life Sciences 1a is that it pampers its students by posting video recordings of its lectures on the Internet within hours of their completion, thereby eliminating the need to come to class on time, if at all. Instead of resorting to dirty bribery to motivate its students to crawl out from the bed a few minutes earlier, administrators ought to cut some of these extraneous perks—perks that enable students to attend lecture electronically from their desks at their leisure, when they are feeling more alert...

Author: By James H. O'keefe | Title: The Price of Learning | 1/4/2006 | See Source »

...crisis buddy hit, “Sideways.” Logue opens his debut with a white Chevy, blurred by heat, slowly making its way across the southern California desert towards the camera—emblematic of “Tennis”’s 100-minute crawl across the screen. Inside the Chevy are Donal Logue’s Danny Macklin and co-writer Kirk Fox’s Gary Morgan, the unlikable central players of “Tennis.” Gary and Danny are acting buddies who meet...

Author: By Alexander W. Marcus, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tennis, Anyone? | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

...seen signs of the pests. If you have the bugs in your home, wrapping your mattress and box spring with a plastic or allergen cover and placing the bed legs in cups of water may keep the insects out of your bed. Filling cracks in walls where bugs may crawl in from other rooms or buildings is another recommendation. Multiple pesticide treatments from professional exterminators are necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming to a Bed Near You | 12/2/2005 | See Source »

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