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...time,” and to blow it off. Everyone on the team knows that they have to get their work done early.”There’s work to be done on the ice as well, with first place on the line in this return leg of the home-and-home series between the two travel partners and bitter rivals. The Big Green seized a two-point edge in the tables when it dispatched the Crimson, 4-1, on Dec. 15 in Hanover. In that game, Dartmouth grabbed a 2-0 advantage in the opening period...
...another encounter with one of his forest-wise cousins. This time, Zhang says, Xiang Xiang tried to escape by climbing a tree. Evidently tree climbing wasn't part of his rehabilitation training either: the hapless bear fell and, from what rangers could gather from their monitors, probably broke a leg. Since then, Xiang Xiang hasn't been seen. Despite that ominous sign, Zhang says he doesn't regret sending his charge back into the wild. "We did not want to keep Xiang Xiang because that would have shown our experiment had failed...
...upper half that's sculpted but not scary, Tomlinson won't bowl you over the way Brown did. But most opponents haven't scoped his thunder thighs. When asked about his lower-body strength during an interview in the Chargers' locker room, the otherwise demure Tomlinson unsheathes his left leg from his sweatpants. Think humpback whale, with muscles. "I'm proud of my thighs," Tomlinson says with a laugh. "That's where the power comes from...
...drives. Then he points out the sturdy walls left standing in a destroyed building. "That is the places of the lunatics," he says grinning. "It was full of mad people. But now it is empty. Why not? The people outside are mad also." He slaps the driver's leg on the punchline and for a split-second I wonder whether the pair of them are laughing hard enough to crash. But then the driver guns the engine, and we flash past more ruins. "Somalis are very serious people," says Fanah...
...then along came Warne. From his international debut in 1992, the stocky blond-haired Australian almost single-handedly made spin-bowling fashionable again, reviving the arcane and difficult craft of leg spin-bowling (in which spin is imparted mostly through a snap of the wrist rather than via the fingers) and proving that slow bowlers can be just as aggressive and flamboyant as the fast men. In the years after Warne hit the big time, kids in backyards across the cricketing world stopped trying to fling the ball as fast as they could and began learning the subtler...