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...dinner with friends. Instead, I am wildly searching my room for something spandex. My cheerleading dilemma is strangely appropriate: I have nothing to wear! My closet is strangely bare of any athletic clothing. I finally decide on old gym shorts from high school (a vivid purple) and a white tank top. I feel almost peppy, confident that I look the part. I can do this! I’ve got spunk! Who cares that I’m not the least bit athletic—I’ll be joining scores of pom-pom wavers before me, folks like...
...before graduation and did so in April. “We didn’t really train for it,” says Cornish. Yet despite a lack of training, his good looks carried him through the marathon. Tselentis explains that Cornish ran, cell phone in hand, with a tank top that said “call me” on the front, and posted his digits on the back. Cornish appears a little embarrassed by Tselentis’ detailing, but admits that he did receive several calls over the 26.2 miles...
...technological marvel. Hundreds of thousands of other Americans are doing likewise, shelling out for cool gadgets that can help with the drive, entertain backseat passengers and--though there's some disagreement here--make the trip safer. These add-ons are pumping some fuel into the auto industry's depleted tank. New-car sales have sagged in recent months, but many buyers are willing to shell out extra for everything from satellite radios (about $200) to sensors that warn you if the car gets too close to something ($700 and up) to portable hard drives that can hold...
...tests were the same rigorous physical and psychological evaluations that the men of the Mercury program had undergone and that Tom Wolfe chronicled in The Right Stuff: Exercycle workouts, X rays, enemas, body-mass calculations, a sensory-isolation tank, even an enunciation test. The trials narrowed the field of women to 13--hence Ackmann's title--and to everybody's surprise but their own, the women performed at the same level...
...continue the Radcliffe image. Again, with their decision to include as a part of the mission of the Institute the commitment to women, gender and society—without that I think the Radcliffe image could have totally disappeared and the Institute would have been just another think tank. I think Drew and her advisors are trying very hard to take the Radcliffe name and purpose into the next chapter...