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According to Cross, nothing much has changed since that innovation; it's only in the last 10 years that players have developed the physique and technique to take advantage of the extra width by whipping the racket up in a motion that generates about five times more spin than the ground strokes players were hitting in the 1970s. "Players were given an inch in the 1970s and they took a mile," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: String Theory | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...will warm the hearts of the vast public and, perhaps, of the Motion Picture Academy members; a Pixar film has taken the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in four of the past six years. (And in one of the two years it didn't win, it didn't release a film.) Pixar movies are not, however, the mammoth generators of box-office revenue that they used to be. The 2003 Finding Nemo earned $867 million worldwide - still tops for a Pixar feature - on a reported $94 million budget. WALL-E, which cost about twice as much to make, took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up Flies High at Box Office, as Pixar Delivers Again | 5/31/2009 | See Source »

Doctors still don't know what causes vestibular dysfunction or why it is so common. The vestibular system in the inner ear is made up of three semicircular canals and two otolith organs that continuously send messages to the brain about the head's rotation and motion as well as its orientation relative to gravity. Humans keep their balance using the vestibular system's signals, along with visual cues and touch sensations. When the inner-ear signaling process is disrupted, it directly affects a person's ability to maintain equilibrium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Many Elderly Falls Due to Inner-Ear Imbalance | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

...overwhelmingly approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee - including its then chairman, Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah. But Mississippi's Trent Lott, then the GOP leader, prevented the full Senate from taking up the nomination by using a "secret hold," a procedure that allows a Senator to prevent a motion from reaching the Senate floor for a vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sotomayor's Last Nomination Fight | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

...committee passed a motion this year stipulating that the new superintendent present a set of recommendations on the issue within the first 100 days of his term...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman and Michelle L. Quach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Young To Enter Amid High Expectations | 5/22/2009 | See Source »

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