Word: slowness
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...than 15 or 20 m.p.h. and strike ice, hard-packed snow or another solid object with the head, they're likely to suffer severe injury, and again the presence of a helmet may not make much difference. It's in the middle area - at speeds that are neither very slow nor very fast - that a helmet can play the biggest role. The trick, of course, is that you never know when you're going to be in that gray zone, since even slow beginner skiers can lose control and speed up, and high-speed skiers have to slow down eventually...
Though Maxwell Dworkin Café floor supervisor Donna R. Spears said she viewed the closing as “unexpected” and “disappointing,” she acknowledged that the café had many slow days, and that its limited hours—8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.—meant that many students turned to other options...
...record-setting clearance of 1.98 meters. Always aiming for further heights, Christensen improved substantially over the course of this year’s indoor season. With the help of her coaches, Christensen worked on improving her approach to the bar. “I’ve always had slow approach,” Christensen said. “My coach and I have been working on running faster the whole time. If I can get a good plant, then I really get into the air well.” “She’s a very technical...
...upset a lot of people in our upcoming matches.” FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL 6, HARVARD 1 After battling Florida International in 90-degree, humid weather, the Crimson fell at No. 1, No. 4, No. 5, and No. 6 singles in straight sets. “We had a slow start, but the match was much closer than the score,” sophomore Samantha Rosekrans said. While finally seeing the sun and playing outdoors may have been a welcome adventure for the New Englanders, the wind and the heat proved to be unruly side effects that plagued Harvard throughout...
...despite all the high-level enthusiasm for medical record-keeping, it is the doctors themselves who have been slow to espouse the system. Major pharmacy chains now accept electronic prescriptions and use software to detect drug-drug interactions, but only about 10% to 15% of physicians nationwide have swapped their prescription pads for computers. "How can you make the nation's health system electronic when you haven't even had an area or a city to show that they can do it?" says Stephen Klasko, dean of the college of medicine at the University of South Florida and an architect...