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...bubble began to collapse, alarms would sound so that the true athletes would have plenty of time to escape and continue practice in a real igloo. Even the nasty Boston breeze can’t pop this bubble, as sensors constantly adjust the pressure of the structure to wind speed. So even if Yale is a match for Harvard on its home turf, nature...
...According to a spokesman for Britain's Ministry of Defense, any troop reductions themselves still represent "an aspiration." Blair made clear to the Commons that the speed of the drawdown would be determined by ongoing assessments of the security situation. Certainly, he knows that he won't be there to oversee the final departure of British forces from Iraq. The former Europe Minister Denis MacShane, leaving the chamber at the end of the question-and-answer session, welcomed "the reduction of British troops in Iraq" and "a mission partly accomplished in Basra," but suggested that aspects of the insurgency...
...other half of the draw, Dan Nguyen struggled to match the speed of his opponent, No. 2 seed and eventual tournament champion Rupesh Roy, a 2007 Australian Open junior doubles finalist. Nguyen lost his first set, 6-0, but late in the second set, a clip of the net and a winner down the line from Nguyen allowed for a break back...
...great in the second set; they were going toe-to-toe,” Fish said. “Dan played some great points. His confidence is better; it’s just getting up to that speed...
...same time nerve-wracking. I would describe the sensation of modern warfare, or at least as it was for us 25 years ago, as 99 per cent boring, routine, intense and repetitive, and then 1 per cent terror and frenetic activity when an attack came in." He added: "The speed of attack was so much faster than in previous campaigns, as the aircraft were all jet-powered and the missiles were intelligent rather than the propeller-driven aircraft of World War II and iron bombs...