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...higher classes, though, the Crimson's Achilles heel, the loss of 177-pounder Fran Volpe frustrates the organization's excellent recruiting efforts...
...their badges do the work. When they approach within five feet of each other, pairs of tags sniff and display their results in a neat row of five red and green leds. What happens when you encounter someone who sets off five red lights? Do you turn heel and flee to a more compatible piece of chestware? In the "tag meets" that Borovoy has run, that hasn't been the case. "People are very sophisticated readers," he says. Opposites, after all, sometimes attract...
...Crimson's passing game, which had been the team's Achilles's heel, showed signs of improvement against Cornell, with junior quarterback Jay Snowden completing 18 of 24 passes for 216 yards...
...Middle East: Clinton pledged United States involvement, but not troops. We can never impose a peace, he warned, but we can minimize the risk. Again, Dole failed to attack Clinton's one true Achilles heel: his complete failure of moral leadership in foreign affairs. Here is a president who, unlike Bob Dole, knuckled under to the Europeans on Bosnia, betrayed human rights for free markets in China and improperly intervened in Israeli elections in the Middle East. If Dole can't see these weaknesses, then he's not smart enough to be president...
Pilot users can jot notes and addresses into the machine with a tiny penlike stylus that traces letters onto the touch-sensitive screen, like an Etch-A-Sketch. To help Pilot turn those squiggles into English (the Achilles' heel of the Newton, which was likely to translate GET LUNCH into EAT COUCH), users must write in Graffiti, a simplified written language that replaces each letter with a geometric pattern; an A looks like an upside down V, for instance. It took us 10 minutes to learn, and after a week we were up to about 80% of our normal writing...