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...Kids will continue to become paralyzed because they never learned how to properly tackle, with their heads up. The game's violence will continue because that's exactly why we like it, our gladiatorial lust still intact 16 centuries after the Romans. The bigger the hit, the greater the roar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas Football and the Price of Paralysis | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

...unearths anything of scientific importance, the area will have to be excavated before construction can proceed. By the end of the day, Oster has found some stone chips, probably residue from a 5,000-year-old Paleo-Indian arrowhead. It's not enough to recommend a shutdown. The earthmovers roar to life again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Las Cruces | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...ramp. The lights swiftly brighten to a squinting glare. On either side, necks crane forward to scrutinize every inch of the finery on exhibition. As she pirouettes in front of a flurry of flashes, the crowd emits its approval: some rise to applaud; others roar as they sway to the music. Welcome to Fashion Week in Karachi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion Week Comes to Pakistan Amid Mayhem | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

...concertgoers - just 18,000 silent seats. That's a whole lot less boisterous than the normal adrenaline-fueled arena chaos. It could be a point of strength: Ortega insists there "is something quite special" about the fact that there is an "emptiness where there would have been a roar of applause." But as a viewing experience, it will doubtless take some getting used to. (See the last pictures of Michael Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing This Is It: How Sony Created a Global Event | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

Consider the scene at The Otherside one recent Friday night: the restaurant’s usual throng burst into a roar when two of the scruffiest, hipster-iest men in the establishment began flinging small objects off a balcony into the crowd below. The objects, it turned out, were decks of cards and miniature palm-sized helmets—just large enough for a hipster to keep a finger or two safe while zooming around Boston on a bike without breaks...

Author: By JONATHAN B. STEINMAN, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Geek-Chic | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

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