Word: sound
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Langlas, a 5'9 "quiet assassin" at shooting guard, leads Princeton into battle. She led the team with 13.9 ppg and also averaged 5.3 rpg. A player who's described as "fundamentally sound" in the Ivy media guide, Langlas realizes the sense of urgency the team feels to finally win a championship with the current squad...
...evening before his trip, if he could cap it with another victory? Before leaving his house for the airport, he took a few moments for his daily Bible study, reading from John 3:8, in which Jesus reminds Nicodemus, "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth...
...songs on the album, Apple is far better at hitting her targets. When the Pawn Hits... has been artfully produced by Jon Brion, who helps give the CD a carefully ornate sound that's intimate yet rich. Lyrically, Apple is full of fury: at her past, at her lovers, at herself. In To Your Love she sings, "It's hard enough even trying to be civil to myself." In Limp she mocks, "It won't be long till you'll be/ Lying limp in your own hands." She knows there are things about her that put people she loves...
...course, on this question of old age, science is still a baby. There are plenty of biologists who believe that aging and death are as inevitable as taxes. No one really knows if human longevity will come up against a fixed barrier somewhere or if, like the sound barrier, it is there only to be broken. Some gerontologists say the limit of the average life-span is 85 years; others, 95, 100, 150 and beyond. No one understands the economic barriers either. Ronald Lee, a demographer at the University of California, Berkeley, calculates that for each year...
...talking toilets and wired toothbrushes sound more like an Orwellian nightmare than a dream come true, you might want to skip the rest of this story. But can you really afford not to read...