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...classmate who police said had admitted double homicide. Son of a U.S. Army chief warrant officer, Mesa is a native of Guam. He was an enthusiastic athlete in high school; the Washington Post noted that when he was a school wrestler, it had once taken three boys to pin him. After transferring to Gallaudet's Model Secondary School for the Deaf, he had academic problems. His lawyer later suggested that he reads at about a fourth-grade level. But he is a handsome young man, deeply devoted to his girlfriend (also from Guam), with a wide circle of friends. Even...
...screamed and we heard this crunching sound. Instead of doing what I would've done if a dog bit me or something, shake my leg to get it off, Phil was very clever. His heel was still out of the thing's mouth. He stepped his heel down to pin the dragon. The deal is, they pull you off your feet and apparently then...
...idea of a university’s soul is difficult to quantify or pin down, and it cannot be itemized for a balance sheet. But soul is more fundamental than prestige or endowment. And just as a person’s soul lives in the body, a college’s soul is contained on its campus. It is the reason an “Ivy League-quality” university on the Web is difficult to picture...
...scent cartridge into the shoe-box-sized device, which can mix thousands of smells using the same chemicals found in perfumes and food. It then releases a dose of the scent in short, focused spurts. Though a spokesman announced the company's demise last month, DigiScents continues to pin its hopes on the video-game market. Co-founder and chief executive officer Joel Bellenson predicts that a year from now players firing off a round of ammunition in a virtual shoot-out will be immersed in the smell of gunpowder thanks to the $200 attachment...
...Ford is clearly trying to pin the damage on Firestone, and vice versa. But a five-month investigation by TIME of Ford documents, which the company prepared for investigators and government lawyers, shows Ford's engineers were wrestling with the stability and handling of the Explorer even before it hit the market in 1990-as a sibling for the notorious bucking Bronco II, which cost the company approximately $2.4 billion in damage settlements. Previously undisclosed memos and e-mails show the extent to which the engineers were juggling decisions about the Explorer's suspension systems, tire pressure, weight and steering...