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...football players to prepare for UNC’s size and athleticism. The 5’6 Monti, as usual, will be one of the shortest players on the court and will have her work cut out for her trying to keep up with UNC’s quicker guards. But Barnard isn’t worried...
...until she's covered the entire screen. As the camera criss-crosses the visual field, a rapid series of electrical stimulations is sent to her optic nerve. The number of electrical stimulations depends on the number of live pixels on the screen; the more there are, the easier and quicker it is to compile an image. Marie reconstructs the image from what appear to be a series of strobe flashes, an experience that's a bit like watching a miniature stadium billboard, on which images are also compiled from groups of individual flashing lights...
Taxi, UC Shuttle or T to Logan? I have a car, so hopefully I’d be driven by my sister [a first-year]. But I would always take the T. It’s quicker and cheaper. Underline the cheaper...
Just as Eberharter, the World Cup champion, had set up a nearly half-second lead, his countryman Fritz Strobl posted a time .28 sec. faster. And then came Norway's Lasse Kjus, .06 sec. quicker. Strobl, a personable and humorous character who in the summer months is a policeman, skied a perfect race while Eberharter made a couple of small errors. As he took in the joy of winning, Strobl said afterward, "I'm not out to beat anyone when I'm skiing. When I ski, I just want to ski well." Eberharter hid his disappointment well. "Everyone was expecting...
...TIME: Were B.A. and the other full-service airlines caught flat-footed by discounters like Ryanair and EasyJet? Eddington: Yes. We should have been much quicker to learn from the things they did well. Are they lucky that they don't fly in the North Atlantic? Yes, they are. Many charter operators who are close to the no-frills model and fly to the U.S. have had a tough time...