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...could act like a mad scientist, locking himself in a room, drawing up defenses." That didn't suit Belichick for the p.r. functions of a head coach, and he failed in a stint at Cleveland. He's still ill at ease in press conferences, but he has a lighter side. Quarterback Tom Brady, another no-namer promoted to Super Bowl glory when the Pats took it all in 2002, insists his coach is "very witty, very intelligent." Asked for a few gems of Belichick stand-up, Brady demurs: "We're talking about a football coach here. Not much of that...
...true too that the moon may be an appealing launchpad because lunar gravity, just one-sixth that of Earth's, makes payloads a lot lighter and launching them a lot easier. But things aren't quite that simple. An Apollo astronaut confessed that after his lunar module landed on the moon, he had the sobering realization that before he could return home, he would again have to get the ship moving very, very fast. As any astronaut knows, the two most challenging tasks in operating a spacecraft are starting and stopping it. If it's possible to avoid additional stops...
Given the silence, measuring SM's popularity is not a precise business, especially since it blurs into the larger category of BDSM, or bondage-discipline-sadomasochism. A 1990 Kinsey Institute report said researchers estimate that 5% to 10% of Americans occasionally engage in SM sex. "The lighter end of BDSM is penetrating bedrooms across America. It's restraint on bedposts, it's spanking, it's fantasy play--and it's all fairly common," says Barnaby Barratt, president-elect of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists. In his quarter-century of private practice as a therapist in southeastern...
...teenage dreamers and overachievers with $50,000 to spare, the 2005 Corvette, called the C6, sheds its pop-up headlights for the first time in more than 40 years. Instead of door handles, the lighter, more powerful C6 has membrane-activated switches hidden behind recesses. Keyless entry and engine starting means owners will never have to fish around in their pockets for keys before zooming off into the sunset...
...Germany over Iraq. "It's part of a natural progression, as the U.S. rethinks its positioning globally, to lower-cost, more flexible facilities," says Steven Everts, director of the transatlantic program at the Centre for European Reform in London. The footprint may get larger, but it will also be lighter...