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...first two periods, Bellamy was mostly able to sit back and watch her teammates dominate the play on the other end of the ice. The Crimson was relentless on the attack, outshooting the Huskies, 12-5, in the first frame before exploding for 26 shots in the second...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ryabkina’s Goal Enough For Beanpot Title | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

...ratings boost. But now they may be cursing their continuing bad luck. That's because American skier Lindsey Vonn, the blond speed beauty whose quest for five medals over the two weeks of the Olympics was supposed to boost ratings to Michael Phelps-ian levels, might be forced to sit out these Games. (See 25 Winter Olympic athletes to watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Lindsey Vonn Have to Drop Out of the Games? | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

...them. It is impossible to measure how many missed calls were the result of officials who were unable to keep up with the players. However, officials would certainly be better able to stay on top of their exercise if officiating were their full-time job rather than having to sit behind a desk for a week before being asked to officiate a professional football game...

Author: By Peter L. Knudson | Title: An Official Change | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

Perhaps it's just good entertainment. Another secret to Lost's success in the Islamic Republic is that it's family-friendly. Unlike in the U.S., the television in Iran tends to be in its own room, away from the dinner table. Families generally sit together to watch shows - veritable home cinemas. (Iranians are notorious film buffs, their love affair with movies stretching back to the birth of cinema itself. The first films were brought to Iran in 1900 by the monarch Mozaffar al-Din Shah, just five years after the Lumière brothers premiered their light machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Secret Obsession: Getting Lost in Tehran | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

...like Israel more [than Egypt] because there's justice," says Ibrahim, a young cement smuggler. "If you are a person living inside Israel, you live better than you would in Egypt, without any smuggling," he says. "They don't let you just sit on the street ... And Israel would never arrest your wife and father if you are the one wanted by the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt's New Challenge: Sinai's Restive Bedouins | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

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