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Just Smashing Inventor: Fischer Availability: Now, $170 at tennis-warehouse.com. The 105-sq.-in. model is recommended for beginners; the 98-sq.-in. one is for more advanced players. To Learn More: www.fischer-tennis.com Fischer's Magnetic Speed tennis racquet won't fix your forehand, but hit the sweet spot, and you'll feel the difference. During normal play, a racquet's frame deforms slightly on impact before springing back. With the M-Speed, two unipolar magnets positioned in opposite sides of the head help speed the recovery so the ball is catapulted back over the net with extra oomph. Anna-Lena...
...Allwood had an unusual role model in her own mother, who she says was the first woman doctor in El Salvador (her surname comes from an English grandfather). Allwood, too, would blaze a trail by becoming among the few women to major in engineering at the national university. When she raised her hand in class, a professor would tell her to go home and wash dishes. Newly divorced and toting a toddler, Allwood took an IT job in the U.S., where she says her accent, ethnicity and gender-even her complexion-proved major roadblocks. "Customers would...
SHIRKY: We're seeing lots of places where value is being created outside of institutional frameworks, in ways that institutions can't touch. When you look at the way Linux has developed, it's not a model that can be emulated by any organization that wants to pay programmers because if someone has one good idea, it will be added to Linux. You would never hire an employee who only has one good idea. That would be a bad hire...
...have suffered in silence. For on their mailboxes, in fine rubber-plastic, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold glitter, appear the words, “Hooker Street.” Not Hooker as in Rev. Thomas Hooker, the esteemed colonial minister who helped create the model document for the U.S. Constitution. Hooker as in the family name of the wife of the guy who developed the strip in the late 1960s. Big difference, though not the biggest issue for embarrassed residents...
...meeting on an enthusiastic note. “A lot of these questions have been asked before and the discussions have happened before, but they generally happened within one community,” said Gregory M. Schmidt ’06, president of the Dems. Presenting as a model last year’s joint campaign for marriage equality between the Dems and the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance, Schmidt urged student groups to work together on issues of overlapping political interests. “I do hope you will get involved in the political scene. Make this...