Word: flips
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...flip side of the weight equation is, of course, exercise, which American children are getting less of than ever before, due at least in part to television, computers and video games. According to a recent Nielsen report, kids between the ages of 2 and 11 watch an average of 20 hours of TV per week, an activity that doesn't burn many calories and tends to encourage snacking by exposing kids to all manner of food and beverage advertising. Simply turning off the tube can help kids keep off the excess weight...
Kolarik—his legs pumping like pistons as he spun in front of the Yale goal—was able to collect a rebound on his backhand side and flip it past Lombard. The ever-energetic Kolarik was knocked off-balance as the puck crossed the red line, so it was with his helmet half-off and his back on the ice that he celebrated his fifth of the year...
Maybe, just maybe, Murphy is content here in Cambridge. On the flip side, maybe he has even bigger aspirations than Notre Dame. And why shouldn’t he, with all these NFL coaches dropping like flies? Just yesterday, the overly emotional Jim Mora got canned in Indianapolis. To my knowledge, Murphy has never cried at a press conference. Put him on the short list...
...self-evident, but for years the academic discussion of art was focused on issues of race, gender and class. Pleasure was beside the point. If that moralizing tendency is in eclipse now, it is thanks partly to the persuasive power of Hickey's ideas--and his writing, which is flip, brainy and plainspoken...
...flip side. When the AO swings negative, the circling Arctic winds weaken and cold air descends from the polar region, leading to below-normal temperatures across the hemisphere. The AO seesaws every winter, and appears to be drifting back to the negative now, at least momentarily. Combine that with an El Nino- and La Nina-free forecast, says the NWS, and the balmy fall just may have been a prelude to a frightful winter...