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...days swing onward, galumph, galumph, students leap from their carrels out into the snow-less Yard ("I am not a prodigious leaper. I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms ("Look at it this way, Silas, Louis Quinze is to the Pompadour as you are to ... "). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependent on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhilaration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Beating the System | 5/20/1983 | See Source »

...Bird is not a great leaper, just has a sense of when to go up for a rebound. He doesn't have the explosive speed of Dr. J, for instance, just the required speed. Bird simply has no weaknesses. After only three seasons, you're inclined to say: 'Let a little history go by before saying anyone is the best.' But I just don't think there has ever been such a complete player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Best the Game Offers | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

...long jumping the approach is everything, "the leggy leaper explains." "You have to combine accuracy and speed...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Only Three Centimeters From Motown | 2/24/1982 | See Source »

...DAYS swing onward, galumph, galumph, students leap from their carrels out into the snowless Yard ("I am not a prodigious leaper, I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms ("Look at it this way, Silas, Louis Quinze is to the Pompadour as you are to..."). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependent on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhilaration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Doom | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

...always in the past, so in the future: each ecosystem will produce its own specialized creatures. Relocated deserts will give rise to new animals capable of enduring for months without water, like the cameloid yet kangaroo-like desert leaper, able to store fat and other nutrients in its tail. Dixon proposes new islands settled by bats, which will evolve into forms specially adapted to exploit each of the islands' food sources. One group could well develop into an aquatic species capable of using its winged forelimbs for swimming. Another could, in the absence of competition, turn into the carnivorous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Once and Future Zoo | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

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