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...Ideally you’re not thinking when you perform, it’s supposed to be all muscle memory,” CDT graduate Sarah C. Whitlock ’03 explained later...
...Land a jump wrong, break your ankle, and drag yourself offstage with your hands as your team continues to perform...
...pilots perform spectacular feats of daring in the blue sky, diving from thousands of feet in their shiny blue A-4 Skyhawk fighters, twirling, somersaulting, sometimes almost dancing in tandem at more than 300 m.p.h. Most of the time the display of flying finesse comes off without a hitch. In the 39 years since the Navy's elite Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Team was established, some 168 million onlookers have watched the Angels' shows, mouths agape at the sheer skill and bravery involved...
Indeed, despite clear advances, statistics compiled by the U.N. show that women still shoulder more of the world's responsibilities but enjoy fewer of its benefits. Women perform two-thirds of the world's work but earn only one-tenth of its income and own only a hundredth of its property. They make up a third of the globe's official work force but are paid less than three-quarters of the wages men earn for similar jobs. Since few husbands do their share of the world's child-care and domestic work, women who are employed outside the home...
...ground, the air or the window of a high-rise across the street. Petroleum engineers can explore graphic versions of geological formations thousands of feet below the ocean floor without drilling. Physicians, manipulating the images produced by CAT scanners, can visually probe the brains of patients without having to perform exploratory surgery. Says Don Greenberg, director of computer graphics at Cornell University: "It's like having a doctor walk on the inside of the skull...