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Wherever I went in the house, I carried both cordless and cell phones and the laptop. At one point, I was under the bathroom sink, failing to unblock the U bend, when she called to say, "I'm coming up on Oklahoma City. How do I get from I-40 to I-44?" A few mouse clicks, a look at the map, and I was able to talk her through the interchange. (That happened more often as she moved east to larger cities like St. Louis, Mo., and Indianapolis, Ind.) On the second night, Gabby found a place to stay...
...It’s called sinking,” Harvard softball coach Jenny Allard added. “They can’t sink the dugout because the land is too low already so we could have some flooding issues...
...issue of obesity are in Williamsburg, Va. this week for the TIME/ABC News Obesity Summit. There is no question in their minds as to the dimensions of the problem; the collective weight of approximately a billion obese people around the globe had caused the "the earth [to sink] a little bit lower" joked Tommy Thompson, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, in a keynote speech at Wednesday's opening session. In all seriousness, he reported that new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had concluded that obesity "has overtaken tobacco" as the number one cause...
...rose high over the sides of our little craft and batted the boat with unimaginable fury. [The waves] broke our front ramp, and the boat began to fill with icy Channel water. The water reached my waist, and things looked black for us as our little boat began to sink. But the lieutenant rammed his body against the inner door of the ship and said, "Well, what the hell are you waiting for? Take off your helmets and start bailing the water out." All our equipment as well as ourselves were wet. Our TNT was floating around the boat...
...says her research indicates that the new rivers of federal money flowing into higher education may actually be working to sink the national-security boat—in part because the NIH, through which most funds are funneled, lacks a system for ensuring that projects are relevant, unique, and ultimately worthwhile...