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...Dubai's pace of development is, indeed, staggering. A few years ago, Emirates announced plans to expand its fleet to 100 planes by 2010. It passed that mark last year, and is set to receive some of the first super jumbo Airbus A-380s. Only a decade ago, Dubai was a relatively sleepy sheikhdom - one of seven that make up the United Arab Emirates - known for being a trading hub due to its ports, rather than the oil output that enriches its neighbor, Abu Dhabi. But the ambitious Sheikh Mohammed, who formally became its ruler in 2006, implemented a vision...
Mukundan initially seemed to have some trouble with opponent Ellen de Jong, falling 2-1 in the first. Mukundan rallied, increasingly mixing up the pace of her groundstrokes. Forced to hit backhands bouncing high with topspin, de Jong fell to Mukundan...
...sloppy on defense as a unit, making six errors in total. “As a team we were sluggish and we didn’t come out with the intensity we did against Notre Dame,” captain Brendan Byrne said. The Crimson was able to keep pace with the Spartans for much of the game, tying it twice after being down 3-2 and 5-3. But the 11-5 deficit proved insurmountable. Senior catcher Justin Roth slugged Harvard’s first home run of the season down the left field line in the fourth. HARVARD...
...Pterodactyls” essentially results from the complete breakdown that occurs when these characters are all put together. Most wind up dead, and all wind up destroyed—and just to remind you, this is a comedy. Kline does an admirable job of keeping the pace snappy enough that there’s barely enough time for the shock of a given moment to register before the action has moved on. At the same time, Kline deftly slows down the action at the end for the more dramatic, but still unflinching, final scenes...
...cactus and a miniature wooden mannequin (today posing as Frankenstein), Pressler says he will stick around for a while, and then perhaps find another hot ticket. "'A while' used to mean 10 years," he says, reflecting on his answer. "It's two to four years in these parts. The pace is accelerated in Silicon Valley...