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Senior Grayson Sugarman tracked back and lunged to poke the ball away from a Brown attacker. But sophomore goaltender Ryan Johnson used his hands to play the ball and the indirect kick was awarded. It is illegal for the goalie to touch the ball with his hands if a teammate played it back to him intentionally...
...stands, while Sunday sales are verboten for most of the year, the Sundays between Thanksgiving and New Years are excluded from the rule. The logic is divine: Massachusetts and convenience store owners clearly stand to lose revenue because of an antiquated blue law, so they poke a few holes in it during high-flow times...
...that checked luggage, airport devices that inspect it now use X rays and C.T. scans to signal the possible presence of explosives. If they turn up something suspicious, a human handler has to open the suitcase and poke around inside--a time-consuming effort that can delay flights. But within the next year, InVision, a Newark, Calif., manufacturer of baggage-screening devices, plans to begin selling machines that marry existing baggage scanners with devices that use "X-ray diffraction" technology. When a bag is found to contain something suspicious, the specialized scanners can zoom in on the indicated area...
Then, in the 15th minute, Westfall hustled to pressure a Vermont back and win the ball. The Catamount keeper couldn’t handle Kaveney’s cross, but Sato was unable to poke in the loose ball on one of her game-high five shots...
...Dean left seems to hate more than President George W. Bush is Karl Rove, Bush's top handler. Dean knows this, so he mentions Rove in his standard stump speech, delivered dozens of times a week. But he uses Rove not just to inflame the activists but also to poke fun at himself. "The Danes," he says in a part of the speech on energy, "get 20% of all their electricity from the wind." The little-boy smile unfurls. "I can hear Karl Rove right now cackling in the White House, 'Oh, this Birkenstock Governor from Vermont.'" Pause for laughs...