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...Packard swept past the weary-legged UVM rearguard, making a complete loop around the goal—an imitation, albeit shorter in radius, of what Miles had done moments before. Packard then wheeled at the left faceoff circle, beating Russell to the far side with only 57 seconds remaining in the second...
...with two stores in Paris and one in London. From her office, which doubles as her dorm room, Poilane presides over the stores, as well as the factory in Paris. She also manages the 23 trucks that distribute the newly baked bread to destinations within a 24-hour driving radius (to ensure freshness). Fortunately, since she was a toddler—“a little shit” as she described herself—Poilane has wanted to follow in her father’s footsteps. While other kids ate her family’s bread, this enfant terrible...
...upgrade the standard 17-in. wheels on an SUV to 22- or even 24-in. rims, which often requires shaving off part of the wheel well. Plus-size rims have to be paired with thinner tires, which means the ride gets bumpier, the braking distance increases and the turning radius is diminished. "Instead of making a three-point turn, you might have to do a 16-point turn," says John Jarasa, editor of Dub, one of a handful of magazines that have sprung up in the past three years to showcase celebrities with big wheels...
Brilliant's big thinking isn't enough to convince some skeptics. Seybold says it would take 72 people connecting to an access point every day for three years to recoup the cost of constructing it. And if each access point covers only a 300-ft. radius, that's going to leave a lot of urban America outside the Cometa canopy...
...isn’t the sole property of its students, that’s for sure. This becomes clear from the beginning of an undergraduate’s first year, when students cannot walk to the dining hall without contending with crowds of camera-snappers blocking the 50-foot radius around the John Harvard statue, and when minute details of campus events end up on CNN. But as some shrewd students have learned, this can be used this to their advantage...