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...Those 30 will join the expected 20,000 runners at next Monday’s Boston Marathon, the world’s oldest annually contested staging of the grueling 26-mile race...

Author: By Khalid Abdalla, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sharing a Room, Sharing a Race | 4/9/2007 | See Source »

...Volpe has caught the marathon fever, contagious in a roomful of people who have tried their hand at the 26-mile race...

Author: By Khalid Abdalla, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sharing a Room, Sharing a Race | 4/9/2007 | See Source »

...dance to the first guy who comes up to her and quotes lines from Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (The QT version of that poem might end: "The road is kewl for this white trash / But I've a Challenger to smash /And miles to go before I crash...") But there's not much poetry, I mean of the pulp variety, in Death Proof. It doesn't show me much innovation, or much fidelity to the old grindhouse tropes. For example, in the seminal road movies of the late '60s and early '70s - Bonnie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grindhouse Is Girls, Guns, Cars — But No Sex | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

...Right now, however, the maglev only travels the length of the 11-mile test track at Yamanashi, and as I discovered, that's a very, very quick ride. The train begins moving on wheels; the levitation doesn't kick in until the cars reach 81 mph. After a bump and release, as you would feel aboard a plane leaving the runway, it's pure, even, rapid acceleration to 310 mph. The only clue to the sheer speed is the tunnel lights outside: Standing 40 feet apart, they seem to stretch and blend until they appear as a single white stripe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go, Speed Levitator, Go! | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

DENVER—A spring break trip west got wild in a hurry for the Harvard women’s lacrosse team on Tuesday afternoon, as the Crimson was undone by the unfamiliar Mile High climate and No. 15 Denver in a 20-7 loss to the Pioneers at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Lacrosse Blown Away in Mile High Air | 4/2/2007 | See Source »

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