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ECONOMY: The Dollar Takes a Dive...
...Pennsylvania State University, sports-science researcher John Shea has developed the "Leaper Beeper" for divers. The system uses sensors connected to a laptop computer to measure elements of an athlete's dive; during practice, a beeping noise code tells the diver in the air how high he has jumped and how far down he pushed the diving board. "We want to give the diver immediate and precise information about the dive so a change can be made for the next attempt," says Shea...
...barely reconstruct her 20s, when she dwelt in a shadowy land of waking nightmares, fiendish voices and the alarming conviction that her parents were actually witches. What she can recall clearly is the moment two years ago when it all came down to one choice: Should she dive headfirst or feetfirst from the third-floor window ledge of her room in a Cleveland boarding house? Feetfirst, she decided. It meant a fractured hip, multiple bruises -- and survival...
Weil "took a major dive" last summer and bruised her spine. Mello wears a jagged scar on his neck obtained recently when he skated through a clothes line in a nearby alley. Victor Luke, 28, sports, wounds on both elbows and knees in various stages of healing...
...situation seems particularly urgent, hesays, he will likely "dive in" and work directlywith whatever deans or other members of theHarvard community are involved...