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This minimize-the-load strategy operates in other places beyond the racetrack. We adopt it intuitively when we're carrying a heavy load and find ourselves maintaining an even, almost level gait, thus reducing the up and down motion that makes a bundle seem to weigh more on every downward bounce. Spence suggests that the same concept could be applied to improve the performance of artificial legs. "It's not crazy to say you'd be able to use this to build better prosthetic limbs for people. If you're trying to build a prosthetic limb to handle a bumpy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secrets of Jockeying: Why Horses Go Fast | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

...performance in areas like degree completion - a model some states, including Indiana and Ohio, are already trying. The City University of New York has rigged up an experimental program that requires its community-college students to take intensive remedial courses if they aren't prepared to do college-level work. Begun in 2007 with the goal of getting at least half of the study's 1,000 participants to graduate from college in three years, it's showing initial signs of success. Other colleges are redoubling their retention efforts. And last fall, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Community Colleges Save the U.S. Economy? | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...While wandering the field level concourse, I stumbled across a Friar Franks stand that was advertising a “5 for $5” deal. Curious, I asked a park attendant. Apparently, for five dollars, I could get a hotdog, soda, cookie, popcorn, and peanuts. Now, that’s a deal...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips | Title: A FAN FOR SALE PART 1: Yo Soy Tu Padre | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

Their intentions are good, but Padres fans aren't well versed in the proper protocol. And the huge empty sections on field level are hard to overlook...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips | Title: A FAN FOR SALE PART 1: Yo Soy Tu Padre | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...went to Omaha. [It was] pretty far away and not much to do there,” Leblanc said. “[But] it was a good stepping stone to college hockey—the highest level of hockey I’ve played...

Author: By Jake I. Fisher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NHL First-Round Pick Leblanc Harvard Bound | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

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