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...summer between my freshman and sophomore years of high school, I enrolled in a program at Stanford and took a class in American Government. But instead of a comprehensive course about the intricacies of our nation's bureaucracy, which was meant to gear me up for the A.P. exam, I spent three hours each morning listening to the ranting and raving of a liberal hippie from Florida. He wanted us to call him Bob. He swore by his Birkenstocks. And he thought anyone who wanted to run for the President of the United States was crazy...
...virtual tunnels in your favorite PC game. Now Logitech's WingMan Force Feedback Mouse ($100) lets you be more discreet. It looks like a regular cordless mouse but doesn't have a telltale pad. A force-feedback engine lets you feel realistic rumbling in games like Activision's Heavy Gear II. It also provides slight resistance as you scroll over onscreen buttons, making clicking easier. So long as your boss doesn't catch...
...Killing itself could be seen as an act of carnival: combat gear, painted faces, and the endless refrain that men had turned into 'animals' were the martial equivalent of the carnival mask." Such radical interpretations might fit certain situations and the experiences of individual soldiers, but when Bourke tries to generalize, her argument collapses. The quotations she cites often seem to be taken out of context and deformed by her interpretations...
Joerger said Gear for Sports would only disclose factory locations to the universities themselves, not the public, since the universities are the customers...
Roughly 20 percent of Gear for Sports' business is collegiate licensed apparel, accounting for over $40 million in annual sales...