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...what kind of shape will the rampage leave Calleja's checking account? "I"m still in the hole, but I feel O.K. about my spending - kind of, sort of," she says. Since she works in the real estate business, her job isn't safe. Still, she says, "you just have to delete that from your mind." This week, she'll start a part-time tutoring job to make some cash on the side. "Bottom line, you just have to keep living your life," she says...
...assistant coaches for getting him up to speed after the grappler was forced to sit for the summer.“I felt like I was working with a different body, a little less mobility,” Caputo said. “But this coach whipped me into shape. [When I competed again], it felt like it had been a while, but everything seemed to fall into place.”Indeed, after his run at the Brute Invitational, it would take two months for Caputo to lose a dual match. The co-captain opened the year...
...women’s 5000-meter title in 19 years, while Christensen became just the third Ivy athlete to win the high jump event all four years. Despite the departure of many contributing seniors who have made a lasting mark for the Crimson, the program remains in good shape, as the talented underclassmen become one year older. “For both indoor and outdoor, it’s been a lot of fun, and it’s exciting to see both the men’s and women’s teams continue to take the next step...
...morning. As I left, everyone said I was the best!" - an observation that earned him a spot on the site's all-time-worst list. "At my local gym, most of the guys (losers) are jealous of me, as (I don't wish to boast) I'm in great shape. I'm pretty sure that they call me names when I'm not around," he wrote in an e-mail. So when his gym mates congratulated him for bench-pressing 180 lb., "I suppose I felt vindicated in some way and wanted to tell the world about...
That's not to say that the shape of the brain tells you nothing about the characteristics of social species, particularly when the species in question are primates. Studies from the 1990s that have stood up over time showed that among social apes like gorillas and chimps, brain and behavior evolve in ways peculiar to an individual's sex. Males have more bulk in the region of the brain connected with aggression and competition and less in the region that tempers those tendencies - which better equips them for the socially competitive world into which they're born. Females have more...