Word: leape
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...local universities in a meet where no team scores were kept. Crimson tracksters competed strong, with junior Clara Blattler posting the only women’s win of the day, taking first in the pole vault. Sophomore Brittan Smith took second in the long jump with a 5.42-meter leap, while junior Danielle Mirabal landed at fourth in the same event with a 5.24-meter jump. Sophomore Aishlinn O’Callaghan finished second in the 800 meters in 2:12.4, while freshman Kelli Okuji was third in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:05.35. In the javelin, senior Julia...
...campaign has already been scarred by violence. More than 60 people have been killed in political clashes since November, and that figure will probably increase as the election nears. The electoral commission has little credibility after its disastrous reregistration exercise last year which saw the number of voters miraculously leap from 50 million to 61 million, while scores of people say they were unable to register...
...UConn Alumni Invitational, while several top distance runners traveled to Princeton for the Sam Howell Invitational. The team at UConn was led by two winners apiece on the men’s and women’s sides. Sophomore Becky Christensen won the high jump with a leap of 1.73 meters, the second time in three outdoor meets she has won the event. “One of my goals for this year was to not let the weather affect my performance as much as it did last year,” Christensen, a Texas native, said...
What would possess seemingly sane people to treat concrete walls like trampolines? To leap over handicap-access ramps like Donkey Kong? The answer is parkour, a jaw-dropping hybrid of gymnastics and cross-country running that is equal parts Spider-Man whimsy and hard-core stamina. The word is derived from the French term for obstacle course, and like it or not, U.S. college campuses are becoming hot spots for this exhilarating new breed of steeplechase--horse-free and adaptable to any setting. Google parkour, campus and map, and you'll find, among some 58,000 results, an annotated parkour...
Einstein would later come close to these sentiments. But at the time, his leap away from faith was a radical one. "Through the reading of popular scientific books, I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of free thinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression...