Word: nailing
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Bajin won in a three-set nail-biter at No. 2 singles, while captain Fleur Broughton took home a straight-set victory in the No. 5 slot. Three more freshman triumphs rounded out the day for Harvard, as Martire, Lingman and Ashley Hyotte won at third, fourth and sixth singles, respectively...
...this spring preceding a number of senior year rights-of-passage: thesis deadlines, orals and general exams. All the things that make us fun and normal (like other college kids from Boston College and Boston University) are tempered with bookish propensities, obsessive-compulsive proclivities and stringy-haired, bespectacled, plump, nail-biting, acne-spotted predilections...
Like Titanic, Spider-Man carefully splits its time between these two themes, allowing it to evenly nail what Hollywood these days calls all four demographic quadrants: male, female, under 25 and 25 and over. (The breakdown for the opening Saturday night was 54% male, 46% female, 52% 25 and over, 48% under.) Kids may be the heart of summer-movie sales, but adults pay full price and fill up the seats in late-night showings. Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones is trying to do this too, but women aren't buying it; a tracking survey from last...
...stylus still has a future; it's better for navigating menus and playing games. Even the keyboard version of the Treo comes with a stylus. But I prefer Graffiti the way it comes on the new Clie. Its screen records characters exactly the way you write them, helping me nail those pesky gs and 9s. Maybe someday I'll even write as fast...
When you hand your hands--or feet--over to a nail salon, the last thing you expect is to end up looking and feeling worse. Yet last year more than 100 customers of a California salon wound up with large, painful scarring boils after soaking their legs in the salon's whirlpool bath. Now researchers have traced the outbreak to bacteria that grew behind a water vent and lodged in tiny cuts in the women's skin. Such problems are not common, but you can minimize your risk by not shaving your legs right before a pedicure...