Word: drives
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...looked as if Harvard would easily walk away with an early-season victory over the team it shared the Ivy League crown with last season. But thanks to an 80-yard touchdown drive and a recovered onside kick, Brown managed to put itself in a position to win the game with under a minute to play. Starting at his own 20-yard line, Brown quarterback Kyle Newhall-Caballero...
...number. A more restrained Oberst recalls his best work as Bright Eyes, filling the song with beautiful, rapidly successive lines like “staying above the flat-line / I’m ahead of the curve / take a piece of the sunshine with me on an all-night drive to another world” and the poignantly direct opening line: “Another perfect day / They keep piling up / I got happiness that I can’t maintain / so beginner’s luck.”The most successful contributor of the three vocalists, however...
...that? To get people out of cars, you have to make their communities denser and also make driving distasteful in one way or another. New Yorkers don't drive, because it's extraordinarily frustrating to have a car in Manhattan. New Yorkers look at the traffic jams and think, We need to get these cars moving - they're sitting there spewing exhaust. But in fact, traffic jams are environmentally beneficial because they're the reason you go down into the subway. If the cars were moving, you'd be in one of them...
...remain are fighting for the city's future. Steven Gray profiled one of those fighters: Bing, the NBA Hall of Famer and steel entrepreneur thrust into an office once rife with corruption. Future issues of TIME will feature stories about Detroit's thriving Muslim population and the city's drive to diversify its industry, while TIME.com will cover the city every day with audio, video and the just-launched Detroit Blog...
...City of Ruins On my trip to Detroit, I took a long drive around my hometown. Downtown, I visited a lovely new esplanade along the riverfront, two state-of-the-sport stadiums and a classic old hotel restored to modern luxury. In leafy Grosse Pointe, I saw handsome houses anyone would want to live in (and, thanks to the crash of the auto business, available at prices most Americans haven't seen in decades). At the General Motors Technical Center, in the industrial suburb Warren, the parking lots were mostly empty - an awful lot of engineers have been thrown...