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...Maryland, Carroll has become a go-to guy for disabled athletes who want to take artificial limbs to the extreme not only in competition but also in sports like ice-climbing, rock-climbing and skiing. He has created everything from prosthetic legs that function as crampons to feet that lock directly into ski bindings. "You have to learn not to say never with these guys," says Carroll. "If you do, they're going to go out and prove you wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building a Better Athlete | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...starters in recent memory. The latter showing came on just three days rest, a performance that kept the Crimson in the race for the Rolfe Division title in late April.“He knows what he’s doing,” says Eadington, who is a lock for the second spot in Walsh’s rotation. “He shows a lot of leadership with all the freshman pitchers. It’s been great working with him and learning from his experience.” While he’s trained with pros...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Last Hand for Harvard's Ace | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...example, Jones says CCA had to lock down a prison in Texas to control rioting by as many as 60 inmates. Despite clear internal guidelines defining the incident as a ZT, Jones says he was ordered not to label it that way. Instead it was logged as, "Altered facility schedule due to inmate action". And this was not unusual, says Jones: "Information was misrepresented in a very disturbing way concerning the company's most important performance indicators, which included escapes, suicides, violent outbreaks and sexual assaults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scrutiny for a Bush Judicial Nominee | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

Thus, Merritt, 25, appears to have made an end-run around some of his Convention's usual power brokers, including its Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, which traditionally has a near-lock on issues of national policy. Asked if it was common for a rump group like Merritt's to collect this kind of firepower, Ethics Commission Vice President Barrett Duke hesitates: "I don't know. It's unusual. I'm sure it's existed, but I can't recall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Greening of the Baptists | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

...latest movie from British action-film mainstay Jason Statham, whose cockney wit and sexy bald head have been a continuous draw at the box office. Viewers traditionally find Statham in gritty yet humorous London crime capers like “Snatch” and “Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels.” But putting “The Bank Job” on the same level as those rowdy action-comedy hybrids would be a mistake. The film is a disappointment that fails to bring together its various crime movie elements with any cohesion or creativity...

Author: By Alec E Jones, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Bank Job | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

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