Word: leapingly
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...pressure. But Harvard received a gift at the 55:43 mark as Hagner lofted a ball into the Cornell box. Big Red defenseman Leslie Campbell skied high in an attempt to deflect the ball out of harm’s way, but wound up heading the ball over the leap of her own keeper and into her team’s own goal. “It was an odd play, but own-goals happen and that’s soccer,” Lau said. “It was a definitely a cushion, a nice thing...
Although you acknowledge that the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy was enacted by Congress, you make an unsupported leap of logic when you state that it justifies “banning military recruiters from campus.” “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” is a Congressional act that the military cannot overrule. If you are serious, you should call for a ban on visits from members of Congress and former President Bill Clinton, who introduced the policy...
...comedy today, Dane Cook’s shadow looms large. TIME Magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2006. With his breakthrough comedy album, “Harmful if Swallowed,” on the verge of going platinum, Cook has made a huge leap from the days when he was selling that same album as a cassette tape on his website. But in a nationwide conference call held two weeks ago, Cook showed that such wild success hasn’t gone to his head. When asked what he would do if he were walking...
...With divorce rates skyrocketing, even in Catholic southern Europe, the urge to look for silver linings is strong. Italy, for example, has seen a leap of 71 per cent since 1994, according to the research institute Eurispes. In 2003, there were nearly half as many separations and divorces as there were marriages. Increasing numbers of children are born out of wedlock. Not too long ago, such children - and their mothers - were stigmatized. Not any more, says Grazia Francolini, a director of corporate strategy for TNT Italy, who lives in San Donato, near Milan. At age 36, her mother had married...
It’s not anything close to a leap back to the era of free love, but it is a step toward safer sex and preventing cancer. In June, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it had approved Gardasil as a vaccine against strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer in women. Subsequently, the Center for Disease Control’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended that girls receive the vaccine routinely at age 11 or 12. The vaccine offers a major breakthrough in women’s health...