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...connected by a cable. At that point a pyrotechnic blast will fire a pin across the mouth of the hook, sealing it around the cable; finally, a winch will spool the cable out a bit, reducing the jolt on the helicopter. "It's a smooth transition in the mid-air retrieval," says Brian Johnson, the payload master aboard the chopper...
...Personally, that high jump came as a great relief to me almost instantaneously, as if I was finally able to get the monkey off my back in mid-air,” Andrew-Jaja said. “The last time I had been able to jump that high in an actual meet was on February 26, 2000, at Indoor States in PA, when I cleared...
...then went on a personal 7-0 run, with a pair of free throws, a three-pointer and a floating 10-footer from the left side to even the score at 67. Harvard grabbed the lead on its next possession as Peljto banked in a driving layup after pumping mid-air around a Penn defender...
With the cloak suspended in mid-air, a new pair of arms flailed against the fabric and from the golden robe emerged Master of the Arts John Lithgow...
...most striking of the three photos by Alexandra E. Hynes ’05 is a study of palms. A vision of some tropical spring break locale, the vertical image captures a leafy overhang that seems to float in mid-air, its ostensible support outside the bounds of the lens. The shadowed interior fronds reveal the internal structure to be hollow. The scene is similarly hollow, empty, deserted. There are two more trees, in at the fore, with one sized more like a shrub, but the viewer can just glimpse an island’s coast, and the open...