Word: mark
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Carl Lewis, alone, taking his mark in an empty stadium, strikes a gentle tableau. This is his chance to make amends for 1984, when he only won four gold medals. In the long-limbed company of swimmers, the little tadpole Janet Evans seems to represent all the early mornings and late suppers of all the tiny racers in all the neighborhood pools. The great Olympian John Naber laughed wonderfully when someone suggested that age-group swimming is just another kind of phenobarbital prescribed by parents to drain their children of excess energy and make sure they go to Yale...
Street clashes may mark the front line of the uprising, but at the heart of the resistance lies a passive refusal to cooperate with the occupation. The intifadeh has become a tug of war for economic and psychological advantage. The pervasive commercial strike under which Arab shops open for only three hours a day remains one of the most palpable symbols of Palestinian solidarity. The army has given up trying to break this form of protest...
Other strange and bizzare experiences mark Adam's time in San Francisco. He begins teaching at the Stringfellow School for privileged high school students, and one of the boys in his advanced English literature class begins to follow him around and eventually attempts to begin a romantic affair. Meanwhile, he becomes lovers with Amy Armstrong, the physics teacher at the school, who was also a Yale classmate. Amy's only distinction is that she has a fetish with suede shoes--and she places them at the foot of the bed each time they have sex so that her footwear...
...engines were to have begun firing six seconds before the zero mark in an otherwise perfect countdown. The shutdown came "just after the `go' for main engine start was issued" but before ignition actually began, Harris said. The shuttle's master computer system had taken control of the countdown 31 seconds before ignition. When it detected a problem in the computer that controls the engine firing sequence, it automatically sent a shutdown signal, NASA said...
This past fall, before she was appointed to her current post, Thornburgh and Kennedy School student Mark Sakaley '88, who uses a wheelchair, created "Project Inclusion," an advocacy group which Dean Graham T. Allison '62 has officially included it as one of the School's Public Service Initiatives...