Word: splashing
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...event and cap four years of competition together at Blodgett Pool. “Today was about having fun, paying tribute to the seniors and going out with a bang,” junior diver Samantha Papadakis said. The seniors were not the only ones making a splash. Papadakis made school and Blodgett pool history with a record performance of 356.48 points in the three-meter competition. Jenny Greene had set the previous record of 343.75 points back in 1988. Papadakis almost made it a sweep of the record books, as she just missed Greene’s mark...
...April, nearly 10 years after Titanic made its box-office splash, director James Cameron starts filming his next feature, the sci-fi film Avatar. He spoke to TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan...
...April, nearly 10 years after Titanic made its box-office splash, director James Cameron starts filming his next feature, the sci-fi film Avatar...
Then how about free? It worked for Yahoo! and Google. Companies like MetroFi, which is committed to 13 cities, including Portland, Ore., are betting that complimentary, ad-supported access will attract enough users to turn a profit. San Francisco made a splash when EarthLink partnered with Internet ad king Google for gratis services, but they're still debating what will be free, and this model is far from proven. "Relying solely on ads is a misplaced dream to fund a multimillion-dollar network," says Craig Settles, author of Fighting the Good Fight for Municipal Wireless. MobilePro Corp. pulled...
...baseball? Kids could once spend an afternoon at the ballpark on a whim and some pocket change. Now, they almost have to choose between paying for a ticket and paying for college. Money in the game was running wild before, but the Red Sox’s splash has set an appalling new precedent that all fans will come to rue. Well done, baseball; you are managing to take the nation out of the national pastime...