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...thing he has a penis so he doesn’t need to worry about it.” Despite being a former leader of the organization, I’m that guy who regularly incites the ire of list members. As a result, I’m no stranger to list-serve pseudo-controversy. Even so, I was taken aback...
...result of trying to ski the straightest possible line down the hill. Instead of using sweeping arced turns through the gates, he cuts shorter, sharper-radius turns. "Challenging the line that way increases the force on your body, and it reacts differently," says McNichol. Although he has been no stranger to the podium over the past four years, Miller burst out of the gates this season. He won four of the first six races, and six of the first 10. While other skiers might take until December to start skiing their best, Miller says, "Four or five days...
...biologist Nancy Hopkins ’64 is no stranger to media attention...
Everyone knows it's not cool to drink and drive, but rounding up a designated driver can be a drag. Now it's becoming surprisingly hip to hand over your keys to a stranger on a scooter. On New Year's Eve, for instance, some 350 Coloradans caught a lift with NightRiders, a designated-driver service that safely deposits the inebriated--along with their cars--back home after a big night out. The company, like others popping up across the country, relies on collapsible scooters small enough to fit into a backseat or trunk to get its employees from...
...superhigh altitudes. "As the buildings get taller and taller, you really need the input of the structural engineer at the beginning," says Ysrael Seinuk, whose firm, Cantor-Seinuk, is the structural engineer for the Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center site. Towers have got not just taller but stranger--asymmetrical and askew. No need to worry though, says Charles Thornton of Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers, which worked on a new tower in Taipei, among many others. "Two new developments allow us to produce any shape anyone wants to do," he says. "One is the ability to 'build' a building...