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...alumni game next year. Indeed, on Aug. 29, he threw out the first pitch at the Angels-Athletics game. Once 5 ft. 11 in. and 190 lb., Wilhite has regained 30 of the 40 pounds he lost, and his father Tony jokes that Jon has gained a half-inch in height thanks to the work of Dr. Nitin Bhatia, the chief spine surgeon at UCI Medical Center. Wilhite says, "People say I have really good posture." (See a pictorial tribute to Nick Adenhart...
...hopes not, Professor Adams, although here? Yes, they do sound shallow, and that's painful for anyone who believes men have more dimensions than hideousness. Wallace was a writer who pieced together such complicated crazy quilts of words that you had to take his essays and prose in slowly, inch by inch (or in the case of me and Infinite Jest, absorb over the course of a leisurely decade. Or two). You hope for that same richness in Krasinski's film. Instead I found myself thinking of those man-on-the-street interviews Sex and the City used during...
...Tailgating engenders two fundamental tenets of the American football-watching tradition—laziness and gluttony in the face of athletes who are exhausting themselves to within the last inch of their physical ability...
Harvard started to inch closer in the second half, when Goodman-Bacon notched her first goal of the season almost halfway through the second frame. Junior Chloe Keating continued her career season when her sixth goal of the season cut the Crimson’s deficit...
...these older models are replaced by flat screen televisions that are "less efficient per inch and have much larger screens," says David Johnson, a Los Angeles attorney specializing in the electronics industry and digital media, "you could easily see a doubling of energy consumption. That is the impetus behind these regulations. Most industry people think they will be adopted." The state's Energy Commission reports that the voluntary Energy Star program would "only obtain 27% of the calculated $8.1 billion in potential energy savings for consumers" that would result from the proposed standards...