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While Leigh has tried to pump up the art in Stojko's martial artistry, it's still the extraordinary jumping that sets Elvis apart. When he attempts his quadruple-toe-loop, triple-toe-loop combination, he revs his speed dramatically, launches, spins four times in the 0.77 of a second that he's airborne, lands on one foot with a force four times his weight, then sucks it up and launches again for the toe loop. In practice he routinely bends his blades, and he recently started skating in a boot sporting an outer layer of ballistic nylon, the stuff...
...investor's nightmare: market fixers. Tuesday, the Feds nailed 19 bad guys, including some mobsters named "Butch" and "Boobie," in a classic "pump and dump" scheme. Read up on ways to protect yourself...
...playing UMass because we fell like last year's game didn't end the way it was supposed to," Foster said. "Also, when our team first made it to NCAAs two years ago we also lost to UMass, so going into it having lost to them twice will really pump...
...manager of the station up the hill, and she had chased me in her car. She said I owed her $3.79. I told her that was wrong. The pump at her station didn't work. No gas came through the nozzle. Not a penny's worth. The pump dial showed all zeros. "Check my gas gauge," I said. "The needle is way below empty...
...First Amendment and oppressed peoples everywhere. Then, six weeks later, a heavy-set woman jabs her finger at you and accuses you of having filched $3.79 worth of gas and says it in a shrill voice so that a woman filling up her van at a nearby gas pump hears it and looks your way and thinks, "That poor man. I hope he gets some counseling before it's too late...