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...whose 2008 profits dropped nearly 30% amid the casual-dining meltdown; an 18-screen movie theater; fashion retailers such as H&M, Guess and Zara; and Cabela's, an upmarket fishing, hunting, outdoor apparel and equipment outlet. Adrenalia, an extreme-sports store, is slated to have an indoor wave pool, and the mall includes a skydiving simulator. Xanadu will also offer rides on a 286-ft. Ferris wheel that is sponsored by Pepsi. The wheel will provide stunning views of the Manhattan skyline - as well as the north Jersey highways, toll booths, weeds, containers, smokestacks and steel bridges...
...Without discounting the moral concerns that some Americans have about using embryos - which many consider to be fully realized human life - for scientific research, Obama said that moral values do not necessarily preclude the study of embryonic stem cells, particularly those obtained from the pool of 400,000 or so embryos currently stored in IVF clinics around the U.S., most of which would have been discarded. "I believe we have been given the capacity and the will to pursue this research - and the humanity and conscience to do so responsibly," he said. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...women’s team continued its dominant season, taking the top spot in two of the three weapons.In the épeé, freshman Noam Mills and senior Maria Larsson finished 1-2 in the final standings, with senior Lisa Vastola also making the final pool of 12. Mills went a perfect 11-0 in the finals to take the top spot. “That was great,” Crimson co-captain Emily Cross said. “Noam and Maria have been very strong consistently throughout the season. It wasn’t a surprise...
...20th-ranked Harvard men’s swimming and diving team traveled to the 2009 Ivy League Championships at Princeton’s DeNunzio Pool this past weekend to defend its title as Ivy League Champions. They would face tough competition from the hometown Tigers, and despite strong performances from the Crimson, Harvard would have to settle for second place. Crimson junior swimmer Alex Meyer, certainly exhausted by the final stretch of the long and grueling men’s 1650-meter freestyle, pushed past his limits in order to out-touch his main opponent, Princeton sophomore Patrick Briggs, edging...
...selected for the operation, says Qasab, three ran away. The rest returned to Muridke, where for one month they were given swimming lessons and "acquainted with the environment experienced by a fisherman on a sea." (The fishpond on the Muridke campus, the size and shape of two Olympic-size pools placed at a right angle to each other, doubles as a swimming pool, a student told TIME.) While he was in Muridke, Qasab and his teammates attended lectures on the Indian intelligence agencies and watched videos highlighting atrocities committed against Muslims in India. Six of the 13 were dispatched...