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...Green out-shot Harvard a combined 21-18, the Crimson was searching for an offensive spark when sophomore Michael Biega banged in a rebound at 12:21. After a shot from junior forward Doug Rogers bounced off goalie Jody O’Neill, Biega knocked down the puck from mid-air and stuffed it past O’Neill’s left for an easy goal.“Dartmouth plays really hard, they always do. All the games have been close,” Rogers said. “I thought our teams stepped up our gameplan...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Shakes Off Early Rust in Late Spurt | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

Romance, of course, often leads to trouble: In November 2007, a plane bound for Vegas from Seattle had to be diverted to Portland to eject a persistently amorous couple who refused to disengage. That same year, actor Ralph Fiennes had an infamous mid-air collision with a flight attendant in the lavatory of a Qantas flight to India, costing the latter her job and the former his dignity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Get into the Mile-High Club | 10/21/2008 | See Source »

Schwartz took over the Air Force last month after Defense Secretary Robert Gates fired General Mike Moseley. Gates has clashed repeatedly with the Air Force over its mishandling of nuclear weapons, its push to buy more costly manned warplanes and its foot-dragging in sending more drones to the war zones. He and Moseley also differed over whether non-pilots should be able to operate weapons-carrying drones. Like other previous Air Force leaders, Moseley argued that only a trained pilot had the mental and moral heft to deliver bombs and missiles, or could avoid mid-air collisions with other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying Air Force Drones: Pilots No Longer Required | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...approach Nickelodeon with the idea of a TV show. He wowed Nick exec Brown Johnson - now the network's president of animation - with an exhaustingly acrobatic pitch. "Magnus walked into the meeting on his hands. We talked for a while about the show and then he started to do mid-air splits, and one-armed push-ups," she remembers. "I thought, 'You're amazing, I need to have this show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kids' Show Makes Spinach Cool | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

...main drama, however, remains that place stuck in mid-air. The 'play' button on the video must soon be pushed. We may soon find out if this dramatic pause has scared both the unions and Berlusconi to see the downside to total disaster - and whether the catastrophe can still be averted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crack of Doom for Alitalia | 4/4/2008 | See Source »

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