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...It’s actually a ton better,” Nowinski says. “Day in and day out I feel a hundred times better, partly because I’m fifty pounds lighter. It usually took 4 or 5 days to recover from a football game...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Lineman Emerges as WWE's 'Chris Harvard' | 5/7/2003 | See Source »

According to Denner, witnesses described the alleged assailant as Hispanic and 30 to 40 pounds lighter than Pring-Wilson...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Colorado Police Eye Arrested Student | 5/2/2003 | See Source »

...director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. The melting of glaciers and increased precipitation in the north has poured fresh water into the Atlantic, in some places leaving a ten foot thick layer on the ocean surface, according to Terence Joyce, also of Woods Hole. As the lighter fresh water slows the sinking of the Gulf Stream as it hits these northern latitudes it reduces the pull that brings warm water northward. Scientists estimate that the speed of the conveyor in the far north has diminished by 20% since the 1970s. Coincidence? Perhaps, but the synchronous freshening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forget SARS. What About the Weather? | 5/2/2003 | See Source »

...decade ago, few would have guessed Embraer would be Bombardier's main competitor in the regional-jet business. But Embraer's 1994 privatization heralded Brazil's new push to be a global economic player. To exploit the late-'90s boom in worldwide regional-jet travel, Botelho committed Embraer to lighter, faster, farther-ranging and less expensive jets, which proved attractive to airlines even though they weren't--and still aren't--considered as technologically advanced as Bombardier's. Says Doug Abbey, executive director of the Regional Air Service Initiative, an industry advocacy group in Washington: "Embraer is the risk-taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aerospace: Dogfight | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

...decade ago, few would have guessed Embraer would be Bombardier's main competitor in the regional-jet business. But Embraer's 1994 privatization heralded Brazil's new push to be a global economic player. To exploit the late-'90s boom in worldwide regional-jet travel, Botelho committed Embraer to lighter, faster, farther-ranging and less expensive jets, which proved attractive to airlines even though they weren't - and still aren't - considered as technologically advanced as Bombardier's. Says Doug Abbey, executive director of the Regional Air Service Initiative, an industry advocacy group in Washington: "Embraer is the risk-taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dogfight | 4/20/2003 | See Source »

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