Word: grails
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Discussing the Sperm Bank Solution is a favorite pastime of Harvard males. The holy grail of term-time employment, it's tossed around in conversations as a sure fire way to get out from under escalating debt, the perfect way to make back all that money spent on foot, books and beer...
...addition to half an hour of cardiovascular training, 45 minutes of stretching and four hours of skating. "Not being one of the favorites, it'll be important for me [at Nagano] to have something extra," he says candidly. That something extra is the elusive quad, the Holy Grail of men's competition--four revolutions and a one-foot landing. No American man has ever managed to nail one in competition...
...This rarity has only one member on campus and it is always parked in front of DeWolfe. Above and beyond the retro-bike, transcending the style capacity of most, is the motorized scooter. This is reserved for the select few. It's something to work for: a cyclist's grail, a vision beyond the handlebars, a continental dream.FM
Although many seismologists have all but forsaken their "Holy Grail"--accurately predicting when and where an earthquake will strike--a new generation of scientists has taken on the challenge of deducing the precise structure and motion of the earth's mantle and core. They are using data collected by 100 stations around the world and shared in digital form over the Internet...
...Holy Grail...