Word: slowness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...million domestic range - not bad for productions that don't cost much. And they often double their North American gross in foreign markets: Transporter 3 made $32 million here, nearly $70 million abroad. So the low number for Crank: High Voltage will slow Statham's momentum, but it won't kill...
...lacrosse team over Holy Cross, 11-4. Mired in a three game losing streak with defeats to a trio of nationally ranked Ivy opponents, the Crimson (6-5, 1-3 Ivy) squared off against the Crusaders (3-11, 0-6 Patriot) in a non-league matchup. After a slow start, the Harvard attack struck early and often to stop its losing ways. “I thought the guys played hard,” Harvard coach John Tillman said. “[We] didn’t always execute, play very smart or efficiently, but sometimes you have...
...subglacial pond as "a unique sort of time capsule from a period in Earth's history," but it also has lessons for scientists studying Mars, an entire planet that is in many ways a time capsule too. Mars, like Antarctica, was once warm and wet, but the slow loss of its atmosphere also meant the loss of much of its moisture and surface heat. Still, the place was warm and wet long enough for life to have taken hold - life that would have then had to retreat into underground water deposits and make the same kind of hurry-up adaptation...
...look: the order was restored. He wallowed in uncertainty, lying in an empty parking lot, wondering at his existence. He was lying on his back in the lot, in spot number twenty-eight, watching the stars, when headlights swept across his body, and he heard a car engine slow, then cut off. A car door opening, slamming shut, the sound of high-heeled footsteps, and a shadow fell momentarily across his view of the cosmos. His girlfriend’s body settled on top of him, her head on his chest in spot twenty-eight, her feet clacking...
...Kong-registered container ship, of the frequent hijackings he witnessed and heard of in the Gulf of Aden during his stint onboard last year. "The pirates come at you firing rocket launchers. You can outpace them if you're a fast, high-decked container. Otherwise you'll have to slow down or risk being blown up. Then they'll bring out their ladders, climb onto your deck, guns in hand, and it's all over in seven to eight minutes." Describing the passage through pirate-infested waters, he adds, "Every few minutes there's a false alarm, and the stress...