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...abstraction for most people. But it is all too real for Kevin Hines. Of the more than 1,200 people who have jumped off the bridge, Hines is one of only 26 to have plummeted the 220 ft. into San Francisco Bay, hit the water at 75 mph and somehow survived. As soon as his hands left the bridge's railing, he says he thought, "I don't want...
...Some pundits would have me believe that working moms are evil. They drive by the day care center at 15 mph and push their kids out the open door. "Tuck and roll!" they command, speeding off to careers where they gather up against the glass ceiling like fish. Blinded by their devotion to the company, these moms ignore the scientific research on how day-care children are more disobedient and don't have social skills. Heavily dependent on their nannies, these moms couldn't make chocolate milk if they tried, and they certainly don't know that...
...event were junior skipper Matthew Knowles and junior crew Cassandra Niemi, freshman skipper Andrew Flynn and sophomore crew Alicia Harley, as well as freshman skipper Jon Garrity and junior crew Ashley Nathanson. The round-robin event was characterized by unseasonably dicey conditions, with wind gusts topping 25 MPH. Vermont, Bowdoin, and Tufts finished in third, fourth, and fifth places, respectively. WOMEN’S JOSEPH DUBLIN TROPHY The No. 10 women’s squad saw the third of the three weekend host teams finish atop the final order when they traveled to Medford, Mass. for the Joseph Dublin Trophy...
...Harvard junior, who stands at 6’1 and whose pitches top out at 83 mph from the mound—modest numbers in collegiate ranks dominated by smoke-throwing giants—learned how to throw underhanded not long...
...eventually headed to a dinner for the Delphic, an undergraduate final club.The arm is part of the package that brought Salsgiver to Cambridge in the first place. In baseball jargon, it’s a hose, a rocket, a gun—clocked as high as 93 MPH, it’s one of five professional-grade “tools” that the right fielder employs in his impressive repertoire.The other four (speed, fielding, hitting for average, and hitting for power) are nothing to sneeze at either. But when the Detroit Free Press named him the top high...