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...After recent problems with injuries, this week we focused on maintaining and solidifying the positive changes we have made over the past couple weeks and making sure no matter what lineup we race on Sunday, that it will be fast,” said sophomore seven-seat Katie Golden. “We have made huge improvements over the season and are eager to prove that to our competition...
...Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful memory. A sure recipe for film immortality; but death at 24, in the driver's seat of a Porsche 550 Spyder, doesn't allow much time for achievement. Dean managed it with just three starring roles, in East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant. It helped that all three were excellent films; it helped more that Dean spoke a secret language to teenagers just as they were becoming a significant marketing niche. In his bruised blond beauty, young people saw what they thought they looked like inside. What they felt...
Kids left unprotected become part of a dangerous underbrush that can burn fast when a virus hits. The last polio outbreak in the U.S., in 1979, struck a vaccine-averse Amish community, paralyzing 14 people. That virus originated outside the country. "There are people in the U.S. who question vaccinations," says Heidi Larson of UNICEF. "But I think it's because they don't see the impact of the disease around them...
First off, no—it is not wrong to feel so down, especially since May in Cambridge is eerily reminiscent of February in Siberia. The fast passage of time can be scary, and it always seems like spring semester races by. I took a year off before college and still couldn’t believe that I was already done with my freshman year when it happened...
...Fast-forward two years: this spring she published The Breaking Point: How Female Midlife Crisis Is Transforming Today's Women, which suggests that the national conversation is about to have a hot flash. The passage through middle age of so large a clump of women - there are roughly 43 million American women ages 40 to 60 - guarantees that some rules may have to be rewritten and boundaries moved to accommodate them. That was part of the inspiration for Shellenbarger's book. "I thought I could help other women see this coming in their lives," Shellenbarger says, "and not only avoid...