Word: switching
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...played bass guitar for nearly 10 years before becoming a wrestler. What was the switch like? After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time. There were just six or seven huge 300- or 400-lb. wrestlers in a room, and to get in the business you had to take the livelihood away from one of them, take their place. So when I first went into the ring, they exercised me until I was ready to faint. And then they broke my leg. (See sports pictures...
Admittedly, “Cosmic Egg” does share a number of features with Wolfmother’s self-titled debut. Both albums’ tracks are filled with similarly rendered electric guitar sounds, the very occasional switch to acoustic segments, interspersed squeals, and hearty track lengths. Rapid beats are repeatedly counterbalanced with the scattering of double time, slower tempo sections. But “Cosmic Egg” takes a step towards even harder ’60s rock riffs and heavy metal intensity...
...added that he would not recommend that Harvard switch its computers over immediately because it uses so many clients. Uchiyama also mentioned that Ubuntu, a competing operating system, is due to release a new version today, which gives FAS IT another option. Harvard currently uses Ubuntu on several Science Center computers...
Months after a summer blockbuster used the campus of Penn as a stand-in for what appears to be Princeton, the makers of "The Social Network," affectionately known as "the Facebook movie," are pulling a similar campus switch. Unable to shoot on Harvard's campus, the movie's producers have decided to film three outdoor campus scenes, referring to Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg's time at Harvard, at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore...
...form of radio could just as well be an iPod—the only difference being that it’s not your particular iPod and therefore provides some variety. But listeners don’t just tune in to the radio for a new song or two. We switch on the dial for the community we find there, confident that a population of other listeners is singing along to the same tune we’re humming. When we pull up to a stoplight and hear an identical bass beat out of the car by our side, we forge...