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...Modern masks have come a long way from Plante's first design. In the 1970s, goalies started to replace the eyeholes with steel cages, improving a goalie's ability to see the puck (a major criticism of Plante's original design) and extending the fiberglass to protect the top of the head and neck. Today's goalie sports a mask that includes protection for the throat and is fashioned often from carbon fiber or Kevlar for added protection against flying pucks. The design has even crossed sports: in the past decade many baseball catchers have begun sporting hockey-style masks...
...this would seem strange to the first generation of goalies, many of whom needed dozens of stitches after games to close lacerations from sticks and pucks. But in case any are brave or foolhardy enough to long for the days of gashed cheeks and broken bones, there's still hope. While the NHL has required all players wear helmets beginning with the draft class of 1979, there's still no rule forcing goalies to wear masks...
...carmakers and governmental officials are focusing on electric cars and plug-in hybrids as the future of the industry. What's your take on that? Hybrid technology has been around for how many years now? Yet its percentage of total vehicle sales is around 3%. It takes a very long time for these technologies to make inroads. We laud the Obama Administration's objective of wanting to get us to a point where we have lower emissions and lower fuel consumption. What we are less comfortable with is that they want to pick technology. Let the guys who actually understand...
...it’s alluring enough to induce 481 Harvard undergraduates into enrolling in the class, despite liberals, conservatives, and faculty alike decrying sexual objectification. Our school delights in humanism—reason! Intellect! Achievement! But when it comes to sex, the pursuit of physical pleasure—as long as you’ve got a condom—transcends reason. Self-control is prudish, unenlightened restraint—down with the patriarchy! Away with gender roles! My body is my play...
...Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has long let it be known that he thinks the imbalances between the U.S. and China contributed to the financial breakdown of the global economy. China's excess savings were sloshing around and needed a home, and profligate America was more than willing to borrow those savings. On Oct. 19, Bernanke gave a speech in which he said that while personal savings in the U.S. is now rising, the government had to get its own accounts in better order. He then pointedly noted that "policies that artificially enhance incentives for domestic savings and the production...