Word: pocketable
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...dorms. Before I could register, however, I had to overcome one daunting obstacle: the dreaded activities fair. Rather than succumbing to toothy smiles and offers of cheap candy, I decided to withhold my e-mail address and to avoid awkward social contact at all costs. I pulled from my pocket the stark white headphones of my sleek-’n’-sexy mini iPod, inserted them in my ears and made a run for it. I blazed past the Harvard Piano Society (I don’t play piano). I refused to be seduced by the Harvard Dance...
...Clearly conscious of avoiding a recurrence of last year when injuries kept him out much of the season, Crimson coaches built an offense designed to keep Fitzpatrick on the field. Absent were the crazy scrambles downfield that ended in bone-jarring hits from opposing linebackers. Replacing them were more pocket-based passes and dives at the end of carefully choreographed runs...
...said. “I think a lot of it was we made the big plays in the passing game, and they kind of held back looking to avoid that big pass play, and that left a lot of open running lanes for me when I got outside the pocket...
...said. “I think a lot of it was we made the big plays in the passing game, and they kind of held back looking to avoid that big pass play, and that left a lot of open running lanes for me when I got outside the pocket...
...painful alternative-- a patch called the Navigator, which is embedded with a wireless transmitter that can read glucose levels once a minute and works for three days at a time before needing to be changed. The continuous sugar-level readings are sent to a small receiver kept in a pocket or purse, and originate from the patch's hairlike filament that penetrates ever so slightly beneath the skin. But it doesn't probe deep enough to draw blood. Instead it measures glucose levels in the body's interstitial fluid. These readings often lag behind actual blood-sugar levels by about...