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...Harvard's first offensive play, Rose found Morris on a simple seven-yard slant pattern. Morris, who had a step on his defender, juked the Quaker safety and outran three Penn players to turn a seven-yard pass into a 77-yard touchdown...
With momentum on its side, and the realization that a win could seal up at least a share of the Ivy title, Harvard pressed forward. Balestracci made a one-handed interception of a Hoffman bullet, and four plays later, on a fourth down, Rose found Morris on a "flag" pattern near the end zone for a touchdown. That made it 35-27 going into the final minutes of the fourth quarter, before all the final craziness...
...nervous from doing things wrong," says Serena Williams, opening her scissors in the air, sighing and then closing them. "I have no confidence. I never feel like this." Her sister Venus, who sits next to her in their Fundamentals of Pattern Making class, is able to offer no support, panicked herself about a tiny tear she has made, despite, or perhaps because of, her extreme caution in removing staples from her brown-paper skirt pattern. "I want to quit right now," Venus says, stamping her foot. Just then instructor Mariella Adrian, standing at the front of the small class, yells...
...formation of stars. A bigger drawback is that adaptive optics can currently correct only for a small patch of atmosphere at the center of the telescope's field of view. But pockets of atmospheric turbulence are small enough that a slight change in viewing angle means a whole different pattern of distortions, which in turn requires a different pattern of corrections...
...effort to catch up after travelling, Venus is grabbing classmates' tools to finish her skirt pattern. Her strappy sandals are making lots of noise as she runs around the class looking for a truing wheel--to give her pattern the appropriate curve. "These shoes have no support," she says. "But they're fashionable...