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...weekend’s team trials were the final factor in a complex formula that determines who makes the roster. The results of this event counted for 40 percent of a total calculation in which year-end national ranking accounts for 40 percent and one’s performance at the S.L. Green National championship—held in Seattle, Wash., earlier this year—counts for the other 20 percent...
...symbol of the ways in which people in places far apart share the same tastes and passions. But this is an illusion. Few sports and fewer sporting events have a truly global reach. In the U.S., most people, if asked, would tell you that Porto is a drink and Formula 1 a hair-care product. Bill Belichick may have revolutionized American football, but he could walk through the streets of Seoul or São Paulo unrecognized. Baseball's appeal is limited to North America, some (but not all) of the Caribbean islands, the northern littoral of South America, Japan...
...half a world away, American kids our age are dying in Iraq. Almost every day, below the headline “Names of the Dead,” the New York Times publishes their names according to the same stark formula: “The Department of Defense has identified 768 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It has confirmed the death of the following Americans.” And then the names follow, and the ages—18, 19, 20, 21—and the hometowns...
While from time to time the sesame seeds have disappeared from the crusts in the past, Tommy’s has always returned to its proven formula in the end. This time, Singh said, there will be no return to the previous recipe, thanks in large part to student apathy regarding the pizza’s new flavor and texture...
...company and often volunteered for tasks outside her official job as an office clerk. "Even though she was in administration, when platoons went out, if we needed another person, we would have to fight over her. She was awesome. A quick study, very sharp." Shoemaker-Davis describes England's formula for proving herself to the men as Be strong, train hard, don't be afraid to break a nail or get as dirty and stinky as the guys...