Word: rimming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flatt's first shot hit the front of the rim, seemed to hang there for a second, and fell away. Fordham took the rebound and moved the ball quickly upcourt, where Bill Calhoun tied it at 68 and forced the first extra period on a layup with six seconds to go. Harvard called time out but couldn't get off a shot in five seconds...
...growing field of sports medicine was made by Dr. Arthur Kirk, the tournament's attending physician, who treated the two athletes. Seeking the cause of the injuries, he examined one of the baskets and found the culprit: a sharp, rough edge on the flange that connected the rim to the backboard. There were also other potentially dangerous sharp edges and points on the rim. Kirk's conclusion, in a straight-faced report to the Journal of the American Medical Association: the lacerations had occurred when the players' hands hit the hoop while they were making slam dunk...
...than 50,000 indigenous maples, dogwoods, pines, brooms, junipers, sword ferns, rhododendrons, yews and creeping roses. In some green areas, traffic cannot be seen-or heard over the splashing of waterfalls. To some, the sloping, low-rise structure resembles an Inca temple reflecting the spectacular beauty of the Pacific rim on which it sits...
...pistons to pump water that turns turbines. A different U.S. plan, now being studied by Lockheed, would use a 250-ft.-diameter man-made "atoll" tethered at sea. Looking like a giant doughnut, it would float with its top just above the surface. The waves surging across the rim would flow down the center hole and turn a turbine...
...quickly trapped and subsumed by the new jellyfish. Aha, one would think, the jellyfish are getting back at the slugs for prior mutilations. No such thing. "Soon the snails," Thomas writes, "undigested and insatiable, begin to eat, browsing away first at the radial canals, then the borders of the rim, finally the tentacles, until the jellyfish becomes reduced in substance by being eaten, while the snail grows correspondingly in size." At the end, the jellyfish are once again tiny parasites, and the whole cycle begins anew. Which one is the predator, then, and which one the prey? This underwater dance...