Word: poling
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...Barbaro watchers are left to wonder if the last eight months of pain and hope were really worth it. In virtually all such injuries, the racehorse would be euthanized - the unfortunate cost of a brutal, beautiful sport, where 1,200-lb. beasts fire down tracks on bean-pole legs. But Barbaro wasn't your typical horse. Whatever you think, Barbaro fought hard, and the fact that there was even talk of releasing him was a medical miracle. Isn't a near-miracle worth the try? It's a story with an unhappy ending, but the Jacksons got the timing right...
...long and triple jump. For the women, individual success was not as prevalent. Only three competitors won their respective events. Two of the three victories came in the field events, where sophomore Becky Christensen won the high jump by leaping over 1.79 meters, while junior Clara Blattler won the pole vault by clearing 3.65 meters. Junior Sarah Bourne took the only win for the Crimson on the track in the 3000 meter race. She crossed the tape...
While some of the Houses have stuck with the tried and true this holiday season—with dining halls adorned in colored lights, tinsel, wreaths, and ribbons—Cabot House has outdone them all with a nine-foot aluminum pole. The unadorned pole is one of the many trappings of the secular holiday Festivus, popularized by the sitcom “Seinfeld” during a 1997 episode entitled “The Strike.” Frank Costanza, father of the recurring character George Costanza, claims to have invented the holiday as a protest against the commercialization...
...site for the moon settlement is uncertain, but the best candidate is near Shackleton Crater at the south lunar pole. Parts of the region are bathed in sunlight more than 70% of the time, just the thing for the outpost's solar panels. What's more, ridges and hills cast patches of ground in equally deep shadow, meaning a possible supply of ice that could be used for drinking water and hydrogen and oxygen fuel...
...screened,” Kessler said. “I caught a glimpse of it, but it wasn’t enough to keep it from going in.”Although the final period saw a push from UNH, a quick Crimson start had given Harvard the early pole position.By the 16-minute mark in the first period, Harvard had a 2-0 advantage that could easily have been greater but for a number of missed chances. Senior forward Liza Solley led off the scoring with her sixth goal of the season on an unusual bounce of the puck...