Word: switches
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...host to more than 60 fund raisers for members of Congress and often neglected to send a bill. At the lobbyist's delicatessen Stacks, Abramoff even named a sandwich after Congressman Eric Cantor at a $500-a-plate fund raiser in January 2003. (Cantor later asked the deli to switch his namesake sandwich from tuna to roast beef on challah, "a deli special that exudes Jewish power," wrote the Jewish newspaper the Forward...
...turn, I'm heading for the Bridge, flying under 50 feet, the plane is vibrating, the ground-proximity radar is going off. I'm trying to keep the whole thing above the water. And I did! It was exhilarating." After a long, deep laugh, he pauses. He flicks the switch from nostalgia to cold reality. "I'm probably crazy thinking I can make this thing work. But I can't afford to fail. I'm not just going to walk away...
...deteriorating; the Yale Schools of Public Health and Medicine predicted that the number of deaths due to diabetes each year in the U.S. could triple, to 622,000, by 2025. One way to reduce the risk, according to a 12-year study of milk-drinking men, is to switch to low- or nonfat dairy products. Another is to stay below a body mass index of 30; exceeding that number can almost double a man's chances of developing diabetes, according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Meanwhile, the FDA approved the smallest diabetes testing system available, Sidekick, to join...
...Brown coach Phil Estes said. “This has been a great ride.” While Hartigan shrugged off his individual achievements, Estes said, “He’s amazing. I’ve been amazed and astonished as to how he can turn that switch from academics to football. I don’t know how he did it.” Columbia’s coach Bob Shoop agreed. “He’s a workhorse. Show me a Division I-AA player who does more for his team that he does...
...Robosapien on Guard Mode, and it will watch and listen, screeching out comical alarms if disturbed. When you return and switch its mode, it reports how many times its perimeters had been compromised. Stick your hand in front of its face, and it uses color recognition to determine that you are human, and then it offers a high five. Be quick about it, because it's apt to pull the old "you're too slow" maneuver. It comes with a green bowling ball and three red pins, which it can recognize on sight and play with a little. The play...