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...principles that every teen seems to live by--for instance, that fast is really good, especially when you're going around a corner. A rearview mirror works really well for checking out how nice your sunglasses look, and every maneuver is enhanced if you can casually dangle your left elbow out the window. After spending two months riding shotgun with a teen, I completely understood why my friend Nancy facetiously handed out bicycle helmets and pillows to young passengers when her oldest daughter first got her license...
...floor. Having to write on my lap messed with my handwriting,” she explains...Bill S. Chin ‘05 sat at a left-handed desk in Science Center C on Wednesday. “I really need to rest my elbow on something to write smoothly, and the left-handed desk just didn’t provide that support,” he lamented...Kate V. Bloomgarden ‘04 had to restart her computer after it crashed. “I wasn’t doing work or anything, but it was still annoying...
...Saturday night, the Crimson closed out its tournament win with a four game dismanteling of the Binghamton Colonials. Schweitzer blew out the Colonials defense with a silly 22 kills and a game high .405 hitting percentage, and Ogbechie used her athletisicm to dive, elbow and lunge for a tournament-high 22 digs. Both women were named to the All-Tournament Team. Schweitzer was named the tournament’s MVP after recording 61 kills and 38 digs...
...Pastor, 42, figures that it takes about four years to learn how to make a forcola, and about 25 to learn it well. In addition to their very practical use on boats, the elbow-shaped forcole are classy wooden sculptures and Pastor has both Mick Jagger and architect I.M. Pei among his clients. He says the crisis in gondola making is only part of a larger problem. "There are other kinds of boats that people don't even know how to make anymore," he says, referring to craft like the peata and the batea con la coda di gambero (boat...
...prone to epilepsy, and 20%-25% of Dalmatians in Britain have some form of deafness. Hip dysplasia, mainly an inherited disorder causing malformed hip joints that in turn can cause crippling arthritis and lameness and even require hip replacement surgery, affects breeds like German shepherds, Labrador retrievers, and Newfoundlands. Elbow dysplasia is another inherited problem. "It is all rather like reading an account of the royal families of Europe after everyone had spent a few hundred years marrying their first cousins," says American author Stephen Budiansky in The Truth About Dogs, published in Britain this year. Playing with genetics...