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...determined to either win or crash. But not from recklessness. He was in the process of changing his tactics. Simply trying to go faster wasn't working: correcting errors was harder, equipment didn't work as well. Instead, he figured that the quickest route down the mountain was the shortest route between gates. And that required deep analysis. "I needed to learn how to change directions and generate force that was different from other guys," he says. "I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebel on the Edge | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

...difference between Fly-By and every other cafeteria located everywhere on the entire face of the earth? No, the food in other cafeterias isn’t good either. The difference, in fact, is that the line for Fly-By moves at the speed of the slowest, shortest girl spooning meat lasagna into her stupid plasticized white cup (plus the 30 seconds it takes for her to wrench the cap onto said cup), whereas all other cafeterias move at the speed it takes...

Author: By Alex Slack, | Title: The Easy Way to Fix Fly-By | 10/6/2005 | See Source »

...Harvard students living along the Gulf Coast or in the center of New Orleans, the hours trickled by after one of the most devastating natural disasters in American history. Day and night grew blurry, until telling one day from another became impossible. Goals were pared down to the shortest term: where to find food and shelter, how to check that stranded friends and family were alive...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Storm, An Uncertain Calm | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

Scott also points to the socio-economic plight of Native Americans, saying that many people are unaware that Natives have the second shortest lifespan of any ethnic group in North America...

Author: By Monica M. Clark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Native Americans Find Campus Family | 5/4/2005 | See Source »

Game 1 was the shortest Ivy contest in recent memory. The seven-inning game lasted just 1:20...The Crimson had two runners picked off of first base in Game 1, something Walsh said was partly due to Hamilton’s questionable pickoff move. “I asked their coach after the game if it was a balk,” Walsh said. “And he said, ‘yeah, but he’s a senior so you won’t see him again.’”...Cornell didn?...

Author: By Lande A. Spottswood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Runs and Guns: Pitchers Power Sweep of Cornell | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

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