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...near-vertical drop at the start of the track and the steep curves at the top propel sliders at unprecedented speeds at the outset, making the later twists and turns even trickier to negotiate. "I think they are pushing it a little too much," Austrian luge athlete Hannah Campbell-Pegg told the Associated Press the day before Kumaritashvili's fatal accident. "To what extent are we just little lemmings that they just throw down a track and we're crash-test dummies? I mean, this our lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics Open with Restrained, Respectful Celebration | 2/13/2010 | See Source »

...drop-off in fear has accompanied an enormous reduction in cases of influenza-like symptoms among students. While UHS treated 900 such cases in the fall of 2009, there have been only 13 since...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman and Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Fear of H1N1 Has Abated, Poll Says | 2/12/2010 | See Source »

...respective college entrance systems. In China, a student has only one shot at entering college every year through the Gaokao, a college entrance examination held annually in June. My teachers used to tell us, “One point, one soccer field,” meaning that if you dropped one point of the Gaokao, you would drop back as many places in the rankings as the number of people you could fit on a soccer field. Imagine the SATs being 10 times as hard as they are now (especially the math part), having only one chance to take...

Author: By Zhongrui Yin | Title: Reflections On Five Years in the U.S. | 2/12/2010 | See Source »

...dove in the pool. I felt like I was just sort of skyrocketing through the water...like I was floating on top of the water more so than I already do. I definitely felt a difference when I was swimming and my times dropped—a big drop. I’m glad they’re going back to the old school and it’s gonna be the swimmer that’s fast, not just the suit...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Dara G. Torres | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

...terms of renting out the space, the Pudding was able to negotiate a trade with the A.R.T.  “They have an ad on our curtain drop and a few other things, so we did that instead of just paying in cash to rent out the space,” explained Friedman...

Author: By CATHERINE J. ZIELINSKI, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: “If We Spirits Have Offended...” | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

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