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...Spaniard's rise to No. 1 ended a five-year period in which Federer's free-flowing and artistic play came as close as humanly possible to achieving perfection within the boxed constraints of a tennis court. Since his first French Open victory in 2005, Nadal's more muscular game has consistently overcome the Swiss star on Nadal's favorite surface - clay. But in 2008, Nadal came out on top in four meetings, including an epic five-set Wimbledon final that dethroned the grass-court champion in one of the greatest matches ever played. More than any other, that match...
...Could changing tennis's most unique and effective specimen backfire? Nadal will never lose certain aspects of what makes him so effective: his pugilist spirit, and the ability to impose his muscular game on more talented players. But so much of his success stems from his resistance to tradition that Toni's plan to make his charge more orthodox may dim Nadal's aura among fellow pros. When I asked the American player Andy Roddick about the changes, he couldn't believe that Nadal would voluntarily reduce the spin on his forehand. "One of the things that is difficult about...
...Dorsky says. The absence of any sound at all erases what seems to be, for him, an extraneous context that limits the viewer’s ability to become a part of the experience. “Spatially, you can torque the film in a muscular way—contract, expand, release—in a way that’s in tune with the psyche.” Dorsky says, referring to silent films. Unlike his influences Dziga Vertov and Bruce Conner, whose work veered into social and political commentary, Dorsky seems more concerned with the level to which...
...Disease, which is effectively what would need to be done to cure it. Stem cell research can be applied to better understand the biological progression of many more complicated diseases, Eggan said in a Sever Hall presentation. He focused on his own research, examining the pathology of spinal muscular atrophy. According to Eggan, “by the time people are sick, a lot of the disease process is already over.” For example, 80 to 90 percent of the relevant brain cells in Parkinson’s Disease have died before the patient begins to exhibit severe...
...football hero, a hunter, a tailor, and a symphony conductor. He accidentally sprayed himself with insecticide, rescued Pluto from the dogcatcher, crashed a car into a barn, fell behind on his rent, enlisted in the army, had his house repossessed, and lost Minnie to an innumerable string of muscular bad boys (although he always won her back in the end). The cartoons' vaudevillian overtones made liberal use of slapstick and puns, and Mickey's close association with children required that he always remain upstanding and moral (leaving the cantankerous Donald Duck to get into all the trouble...