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It’s been three years since the Harvard fencing team won a national championship, and for it, that’s three years too long. But this year, there is one girl who is looking to propel the Crimson back to where it belongs. Freshman sabre fencer Caroline Vloka has proved herself to be key ingredient to the team’s success as Harvard enters the important stretch of its season. “She’s been a great addition to the team,” co-captain Emily Cross said. “She?...
Thin-faced titanium clubs use a trampoline-like effect to propel the ball down the fairway. In 2002 the United States Golf Association banned drivers from competitive play if they were deemed to have too much of a trampoline effect, which might give an unfair advantage. But the trampoline effect also causes high-energy rebounding of the club's metal, resulting in the trademark "crack" that Buchanan thinks injured his patient's hearing. "What we've found is thin-faced clubs, both conforming and nonconforming, produce noise loud enough to damage hearing," he says...
...contemporaries Keith Moon and John Bonham, Mitchell nevertheless helped revolutionize rock drumming with his finesse. As journalist and musician Felix Contreras noted, Mitchell held his sticks like a jazz player, lightly between his thumb and two fingers, sometimes losing them during performances, to little negative effect. Still, he could propel a song: on tracks like "Fire" and "Manic Depression" he proved a perfect match for Hendrix's guitar. Even after the band split, the two performed together at Woodstock...
...fact like many marriages: One partner does all the saving, and the other partner does all the spending,” Ferguson said. But Ferguson did not come bearing only bad news. During previous eras of economic stagnation, he said, venture capitalists tapped into American innovation in order to propel the economy forward...
...only one thought entered my head: “It should have been me.” I began my own campaign for U.S. president at the tender age of nine, when I ran for class representative of the fourth grade at Adler Park Elementary School. Winning would propel me onto the student council, the venerable body that met once a month to discuss the important issues—the rising prices of chocolate milk, the construction of a new swing set and the planning of the Adler family carnival. But I was at a steep disadvantage. There were only...