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...says. "He's fighting to hold the knee down and the foot up. Then he'll bring it back to the middle and fight to bring my knee up to my chest. My whole leg is fighting, the foot flapping. But he holds on. You can hear the joints crunch...
...support and describing the agency's projects in glowing terms. As the conference drew to a close, Goldin proposed that the President and Congress appropriate more funds to resolve the scientific issues. The announcement and conference may have been the marriage of an intriguing scientific conundrum and a budget crunch. "Obviously NASA is a beleaguered agency," says TIME's Jeffrey Kluger. "In the ten years since the Challenger disaster, there has been increasing public awareness of how lean the government financial larder is, and that makes NASA look like a luxury operation. Anything that vindicates space exploration looks good...
...time," Lenzi said, "but the final are great." In other events Monday, sixth-seed Jana Novotna bumped top-seeded Monica Seles from the Olympic tennis tournament, rallying from a 5-3 third-set deficit to win 7-5, 3-6, 8-6. "She played better than I did at crunch time," Seles said. The other U.S. women won, which means a semifinal showdown Wednesday between Mary Joe Fernandez and Lindsay Davenport, who are close friends as well as teammates. At least one of them will take home a medal. Novotna's opponent in the semifinals will be No. 3 Arantxa...
...difficult as it is, I impose a ban on myself during the school year at Harvard: no pleasure reading. Many of my friends, even those in similarly reading-intensive concentrations like history and literature, do read for fun during the school year, but I know that if I crunch one bite of the forbidden fruit, I will be doomed forever--or at least until the end of exams. With more than 1,000 pages of reading per week, I simply don't have the three or four hours it takes to read a trashy novel, or the 10 or more...
...final crunch for students comes when it's time to pick up tickets for today's morning exercises. Each senior receives four tickets--probably enough to seat one's nuclear family. But what about everyone else? For a large number of students, graduation from Harvard is an unprecedented event within their families. When the grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins want to come, seniors can only buy more tickets from their classmates...