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Panicked as the first day of classes drew nearer, Pang began e-mailing administrators at the GSD. “There was really nothing they could do,” he says. And the only step the GSD might have taken, he adds, it did not. “I was really hoping to get deferred,” he says...
...YOUR BOOK NEARER, MY GOD, YOU WROTE ABOUT YOUR FAITH AS A CATHOLIC. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF MEL GIBSON'S FILM THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST? I thought it well intentioned and moving but unnecessarily bloated in blood...
...legacy and perform at the highest level is going to fall more squarely on the very broad shoulders of freshman heavyweight Bode Ogunwole—considering his all-star performance this weekend in the Show Me State—they’d be overlooking someone much nearer and dearer to Jantzen’s heart...
...first four miles in three hours ... [After] she had been swimming for eleven hours, the water blackened fast. a squally rain whipped the broken seas that, running out with the tide, slapped her in the face ... For two hours the current would run against her ... She was no nearer the shore. For two hours, with truncheon legs that never stopped kicking, with failing arms that beat on, she had been swimming in a treadmill ... Suddenly, deliciously at her back, she felt the lifting current that would sweep her ashore ... The pale cliffs of England ... blazed with light. Bonfires were flaming...
WINGS Other inventors had discovered that curved wings reduce air pressure above and increase it below, resulting in an upward push, or lift. While most used a perfect-arc design, the Wrights put the high point of the arc nearer the leading edge. They believed this would increase the Flyer's stability by keeping the wings balanced over the center of pressure, where lift is focused, as the plane moved up and down during flight...