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...different feel to them. "Obviously, women aren't as powerful," says Brenda Miley, national women's director for Surfing Australia, the country's organizing body for the sport. "Men are doing really radical maneuvers, while women are more stylized and working with the wave." For example, men can propel their boards higher out of the water for "aerials." But for Kennelly, that's beside the point. "Do people compare how hard a woman can hit a tennis ball versus how hard a man can?" she asks. "Men can handle gnarlier waves, but I think it is silly to compare." (Women...
...more than 100 million units in 2000, compared with just 62 million in 1980. But what about couch potatoes who have no willpower to pedal? At least two manufacturers, Aprilia in Italy and Manhattan Scientifics in the U.S., think they have the answer: make the venerable two-wheeler propel itself with its very own fuel cell. --With reporting by Joseph R. Szczesny/Detroit
...This convection system creates gale-force hot winds that dry out and preheat fuel ahead of the fire and can propel burning embers as much as half a mile (0.8 km) --Blowing embers allow the fire to jump natural barriers such as rivers and valleys...
When the President does decide to take a swing, he swings hard. By delivering his reform package with a presidential seal and a prime-time flourish, Bush hopes to propel it through Congress quickly. Last Tuesday morning he met with his aides in the Oval Office to discuss his speech to the nation. Card told him that "here in Washington, this is going to be a huge story." Bush relished the thought of rattling the cages of Washington's institutional bureaucracies; he told the aides that as long as he was announcing something, he wanted it to be dramatic. Said...
...placed seventh in the fall, took third in the 5,000-meter run. Co-captain Carrie McGraw placed second in the 400 and helped the 4x400 relay team to a second-place finish. That was all the Crimson could muster on the track, but it was just enough to propel the team to the runners-up slot...