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...This week we had a drill where we did the exact same drop, a four drop,” Bermeister said. “We worked on driving the point and keeping the offense in motion. It worked pretty well; we scored a lot tonight...
...Officers Training Corps scholarship. Or, perhaps like me, at 18 the thought of joining the military seemed about as likely as joining the circus. If I had been told during my first year at Harvard that soon after graduation I would be getting whipped into shape by a Marine Drill Instructor at the Navy’s Officer Candidate School, I would have responded that the draft must have been reinstated...
...boys, Forest, 10, and Luke, 8, climbing ladders and scaffolding on the site where he was building a new house in Pomona, N.Y. Doug Ingram, a graphic artist in Decatur, Ga., whose wife Karen is an attorney, potty trained his son Nathan, 4, by acting like "a drill sergeant," he says. "We had potty-training boot camp. Once I sensed Nathan was ready, I enforced a 48-hour media blackout: no video games, no TV, just potty. He was trained in 48 hours...
...Another constant: teasing among teammates. During a drill to practice throw-ins, Christie Pearce sails a ball over Milbrett's head. "I need a bigger partner," yells the 5-ft., 6-in. Pearce of her 5-ft., 2-in. teammate. In another drill, Milbrett's plan to outwit the defense collapses. "Sure, Tiff, they'll never figure that one out," yells a teammate...
...frozen continent of Antarctica is almost equally deadly, but at the other end of the temperature scale. Drill into the ice cap a mile, then another, and you reach, improbably, a body of water known as Lake Vostok that rivals Lake Ontario in size. While scientists haven't yet drilled into the lake itself, they have pulled up samples of frozen lake water clinging to the bottom of the ice cap that contain unmistakable evidence of microbial DNA. Although it hovers near the freezing point, cut off from light and outside nutrients, Lake Vostok is teeming with microorganisms. "Nobody," marvels...