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...British championship. And countless more karting titles followed before he made the switch to cars in 2001. En route to winning the entry-level British Formula Renault series in 2003, he "made seasoned drivers look silly," says Tony Shaw, Hamilton's then team manager at Manor Motorsport. Hamilton's raw, natural speed and canny race craft nudged him closer to the big leagues. Hamilton's "understanding of when and where to overtake and how to take advantage of a situation is very advanced," Shaw says...
...While still relying primarily on construction sites, Singh also sources his materials from lumberyards, factories, junkyards and even juice bars (for the aforementioned bottle caps). Coming up with new ideas for furniture is tough, Singh admits, because he starts with scraps. Given the constantly changing nature of the raw materials, no more than 20 pieces can be made for each design. But this limitation is also an advantage-customers are willing to shell out top dollar for handmade designs they can be sure very few people have. "I want to celebrate life and the imperfections inherent in my raw materials...
Knowles defended his decision to ignore “raw teaching need” by pointing out that “even if the hiring of new faculty could be nimble enough to respond to changing student interests, we are a Faculty, not a factory.” But Harvard students have demonstrated a sustained interest in the social sciences and humanities, and even as the dean promises student-faculty ratios will not get any higher in these in-demand areas, they certainly will not get any lower...
...Heder, one of the two skaters in the Will Ferrell hit Blades of Glory, does have a love interest (Jenna Fischer), but Ferrell doesn't--unless it's Heder. Indeed, the one big new movie fully populated with strong women is the "double feature" Grindhouse, from those epicures of raw meat, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez...
...more sober than they have been in years. Despite those rare school shootings reporters cover with such lip-licking zeal, the rate of school violence fell from 48 crimes per 1,000 students in 1992 to 22 per 1,000 in 2004, according to the Department of Education. In raw terms, the number of student crimes (including theft) shrank from 3.4 million to 1.4 million in that period, even as the U.S. teen population grew by 5.4 million kids. Post-Columbine security explains some of the decline, but the school crime rate started to drop...