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...lingeringly, over the delights in the tiny containers.") But if the slow zoom sometimes verges on the picayune, it also highlights the eternal puzzle of summer pacing. Benji and his friends can't wait to get out to Sag, but once they do, they're desperate for ways to kill time - until the evening, until the weekend and ultimately until Labor Day. Summer is a self-consciously in-between state; summer coupled with adolescence doubly so. Whitehead stirs up a few deep currents - the escalating tension between Benji's parents, notably - but for the most part, he adopts Benji...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dag! | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...sizable lead throughout the majority of the first set. But just when it appeared that the Patriots had the first set in the bag, the resilient Crimson came back with a run of its own, outscoring George Mason 9-1 to tie the game at 29-29. But a kill from junior Ben Nichols and a ball handling error by freshman Dan Schreff would leave the Patriots unscathed and give the host team its first set victory...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Volleyball Ends Season With Loss to George Mason | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...George Mason continued its strings of five-point runs in the fourth set. But the Crimson managed to answer this time. Down 17-19, it was now-or-never for Harvard, and a kill from Weissbourd ignited a Crimson run that gave the team a tight 23-22 lead. But even with Weissbourd’s outstanding efforts, the Patriots were simply too much for a depleted and injured Harvard squad to pull off the first round upset...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Volleyball Ends Season With Loss to George Mason | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...hadn't been for Q Branch," the secret service gadget master known simply as Q tells James Bond in 1989's License to Kill, "you'd have been dead long ago." As the fatherly boffin responsible for arming and protecting the British spy since the early 1960s, Q has tinkered with super cars (Bond's amphibious Lotus in The Spy Who Loved Me which came with torpedoes and mines), invented cunning weapons (a key chain in The Living Daylights that used gas to disorientate the enemy, followed by an explosive charge) and regularly came up with ingenious tools (a fake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Imitates Bond: Britain Seeks a Real-Life Q | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

...showcased in The Living Daylights, that swallowed up anyone who sat on it. The spy also managed without the telephone box equipped with air bags able to crush anyone inside it. And we never heard a sound out of the exploding alarm clock - "guaranteed," Q said in License to Kill, "never to wake up anyone who uses it." But it was the thinking behind all those cool gadgets that counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Imitates Bond: Britain Seeks a Real-Life Q | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

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