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...fires a soccer ball off the 4-in. crossbar. Before the ball touches the ground, he corrals the rebound on his chest, juggles the ball with his feet and repeats the feat three more times. It's the soccer equivalent of hitting four straight half-court hook shots in basketball or knocking four pitches off the top of the right-field scoreboard in baseball. Just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Competition: Global Game | 5/14/2006 | See Source »

...riverways. All told, Katrina knocked out a region that contributes $130 billion to GDP, roughly 1% of the national total, according to Economy.com Risk Management Solutions, a leading risk-assessment firm based in Newark, Calif., estimates that damages will run up to $100 billion. Insurance companies are on the hook for some $25 billion. Our guide to the fallout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Billion Dollar Blowout: Billion Dollar Blowout | 5/10/2006 | See Source »

...wanted to learn how to throw a curveball. Uncle Charlie, the deuce, number two, the hook. It goes by many names but is singular in its appeal—the prettiest pitch in baseball, with its tantalizing slowness and sharp downward break...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IN LEHMAN'S TERMS: Essence of Curveball Hard to Capture | 5/4/2006 | See Source »

...express this crucial point except through sexy dancing (by the women: nobody wants to see that from the artists). The video does have one puzzling—I hesitate to say interesting—aspect. It is oddly, and perhaps unintentionally, retro. From the repeating electronica hook remniscent of an early Mario Brothers game, to the occasional dancer who looks like she’s a refugee from the cast of “Fame,” to the close-ups of obsolete mixing consoles, there’s a sense of 80s nostalgia that’s palpable...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Popscreen: T-Pain | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...front of the Science Center. Goodbye to kids who are convinced that they are somehow “tougher” because they played high school football or because their middle school was built on a toxic dump. Goodbye and good riddance to girls who wouldn’t hook up with us. (Incidentally, if you run into us in the future when we’re looking mad handsome and cool, follow J-Zone’s advice and “Don’t holler.”)But it’s goodbye to the good...

Author: By Christopher J. Catizone and Chris Schonberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: The End of a Chach-Filled Era | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

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