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...freefall. “If I could imagine the most amazing drug, that’s what it felt like,” he says. “Everything was just so beautifully clear. It was almost like a roller coaster but so much more fun.” Halfway down, the instructor pulls their parachute cord, and they coast down the rest of the way at a relaxed 25-miles-per-hour descent, after topping out around 120. “Landing was painless,” he says after touching down. “I just sat down...
Instead of the race coming down to the last 20 strokes like the boat had prepared for, the Crimson managed to decide the race by the halfway point...
...tried to put enough pressure on early so that other crews couldn’t stay with us,” Blomquist said. “About halfway through we were about to create a margin and rhythm that [other boats] could not sustain. We were going into the race thinking that Washington, Cal or Wisconsin would be pushing us the entire way down the course. Granted we were pushed but we didn’t really have to go out of our selves to win the race...
...think each step of every decade has brought education for women closer to its goal. When we were here, we were halfway there. Even though we attended class at Harvard, there were a lot of indignities. We were not allowed to call ourselves Harvard students. Each step along the way has brought progress for women...
This time, though, PGA player Vijay Singh teed off on Sorenstam, saying "I hope she misses the cut"--that is, gets knocked out halfway through the four-round tournament. Although Singh begged for a mulligan, insisting he was misunderstood, it was music to USA and CBS, which will be adding extra coverage to follow Sorenstam, Tiger-like, in what until then had been just another golf tournament. And Singh might be expressing the anxiety the gentlemen may feel when, come Sunday, some of them could be in the running for the First PGA Pro to Get His Butt Kicked...