Word: diver
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Katie’s mother, Laurie, was a diver at Colgate, and Katie’s maternal grandmother played softball at Drexel. Her maternal grandfather was an All-American lacrosse player for the Dragons...
...RFID tag," says Lisa Mantock, president of Texas-based ScenPro, which developed the software. Using similar technology, Calipatria State Prison in California became the nation's first such facility to monitor guards and inmates alike with TSI PRISM, a tracking technology using RFID wristbands that look like large diver's watches. The surveillance curtails violence...
...being groomed to take his father's spot. "He has a lot of respect for his dad, and the history of Cyprus that he represents," says Kudret Akay, a childhood friend and sociologist. "But he doesn't compare himself to him." Serdar is more relaxed (he's a diver and race-car fan) and less rigid, but ambitious nevertheless. "It is no coincidence that he has been way out front on the issue of opening the border," says one senior Western diplomat. The two men have a close, if formal, relationship. At the Denktash dinner table, talk of politics...
...Noonan, apparently, it’s not scary enough. After reading the densely-worded four-page liability agreement that any would-be sky-diver must accept—“like signing away your whole life,” Noonan says—the Second Class Marshall still shows no fear of taking the plunge. “This is going to be awesome,” he grins...
...Hizballah is certainly a menacing terrorist group with a known track record of brutal attacks all over the world. The organization's American victims in Lebanon range from Navy diver Robert Stethem - his murdered body was thrown out the window of a TWA airliner in a 1985 hijacking in Beirut - and CIA station chief William Buckley the same year, to 241 killed in a 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine headquarters that led Ronald Reagan to withdraw U.S. forces from Lebanon. The group was also blamed for lethal 1990s bombings of Jewish targets in Argentina - showing that its deadly reach...