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...think we might be getting pulled over,” she says, “unless...oh, it’s a police escort.” For this prefrosh, who hopes to be on the Wheaties box one day and will don a good luck shin guard strap she’s had since childhood during the Olympics, it’s all about enjoying her 15 minutes of fame...

Author: By C.e. Dube, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ice Is a Girl's Best Friend | 2/7/2002 | See Source »

...area took the appearance of an archeological dig. Across one ridge 20 mujahidin fighters scratched at the ground with sticks looking for fragments of U.S. bombs, which they loaded into a huge cooking pot and carried to a pickup truck. One fighter handed me a rubber jug with a strap. "Al Qaeda," he said with a nod. Arabs drink water too. Another fighter with pale green eyes carried a backpack that he had taken from a cave. It contained a stick of Mum Cool Blue roll-on deodorant. He wouldn't let anyone touch it, but he would let them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Tora Bora Caves | 12/11/2001 | See Source »

Instead, the military personnel that watched over the Trenton, N.J. airport I used this Thanksgiving only heightened traveler anxiety. With his rifle strap bowing out around his well-trained belly and his glassy gaze groping for something, anything more exciting than the tired scene before him, the soldier probably wanted nothing more than to go back to whatever post he held four months...

Author: By Blake Jennelle, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Loaded with Good Intentions | 12/5/2001 | See Source »

...owned the first skateboard on the block. When she comes up for air, Nicole calls to check on Greg's best friend and colleague Michael Cantatore, so sick with grief and guilt that two weeks ago he had a grand mal seizure. He is 34, and has had to strap a heart monitor to his chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How A Widow Grieves | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

EXPENSIVE $135 NIKE HRM TRIAX 100 This sleek-looking Nike watch doubles as a heart-rate monitor. Strap its elastic chest transmitter (not shown) around your torso, and the fun begins. You can program it to graph your pulse and heart rate with each grueling lap (up to 100 laps), and it will even sound an alarm if it thinks you're overdoing it. Easy there, Flash. www.niketown.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buyer's Guide: Best Of Tech | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

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