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Sophomore goalkeeper Kerry Clark saw her first action in front of the net this season on Saturday, stopping two shots and allowing six scores in over 20 minutes of action...
...girls were not getting the same treatment as boys in school, especially around math and science. Reviving Ophelia, about self-esteem in young women, was on the best-seller list for three years. And of course there was the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas drama on television, in which people saw on their screens an African-American woman's charges against Thomas utterly dismissed. That produced a huge backlash, which prompted a record number of women to run for Congress. So you had this feminist ferment in the early- and mid-1990s that gave rise to what was the girl-power...
...drivers took their lives in their hands every time they got behind the wheel. Many didn't make it. Jackie Stewart, three-time F1 world champion, used to look back at his house before leaving to drive at Germany's original Nürburgring in case he never saw it again. "The Nürburgring has 187 corners - it's like Afghanistan," says Stewart. (Read: "Formula One: Behind the Wheels...
...could stop what would spell catastrophe for the USPS: e-mail, which is faster, easier and free. That, coupled with the fact that 4 out of 5 households with Internet access now pay bills online, has left mail carriers out in the cold. In 2009 alone, post offices saw a 13% drop in mail volume. Forget rain or gloom of night--it's the act of clicking Send billions of times a day that may finally stay those trusty couriers...
...person sitting by their bed? Martin Gardner, author of the 1960 The Annotated Alice, thought so. "It is only because adults - scientists and mathematicians in particular - continue to relish the Alice books," he wrote, "that they are assured of immortality." Make that scientists, mathematicians and '60s potheads, who saw Alice's descent into the rabbit hole, the EAT ME cake and the mushroom-borne caterpillar as evidence of the first great psychedelic trip. (Watch TIME's video "Tim Burton: The Artistry Behind the Movies...