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Every day for the next five months, rain or shine, D’Asaro padded her hands and knees as soon as she came home from school, securing them in layers of bubble wrap with long strips of duct tape. Then, wearing a sign on her back that read, “World Record in Progress,” she would begin her daily crawl. During these 45-minute training sessions, she sometimes brought her dog along, attaching its leash to a harness on her back. Other days, she asked a friend to walk with...
...raised over $13,500 selling lemonade and cookies to build a new playground for a local park. A year later, she mobilized classmates to record and distribute 150 books-on-tape to help disadvantaged children in her community learn to read. And earlier this year, she e-mailed over 100,000 elementary school teachers across the nation, asking their classes to participate in a card-making campaign for nursing home residents. This last effort resulted in her family’s e-mail service being temporarily shut down because she was suspected of running a spam operation...
...skinny in today's Crimson about how Laura E. D’Asaro ’13 crawled the fastest mile ever to be crawled. Beginning on a track in high school, with bubble wrap and duct tape protecting her limbs, D'Asaro began her climb to glory-on-all-fours. Hit the link for a video and an inside look at how she made it happen...
...take a while, but it is what investors need to hear and, as some economists are warning, will also need to see put into practice if the country is to attract badly needed foreign capital. In the meantime, Anggodo Widjojo, a businessman and one of the men caught on tape conspiring with legal authorities to set up the KPK, has yet to be charged. "Why hasn't Anggodo been arrested?" asks Yanuar Rizky, an independent analyst and columnist writing on economic issues. "It looks as if you have to be close to the powers that be in Indonesia...
...late 1960s, the stock exchange was upgrading to electronic boards, leaving them little use for ticker tape. The parades dwindled: there was only a handful in the 1970s and 1980s. The 1990s saw a brief resurgence: among the highlights was the 1998 fete honoring John Glenn for becoming the oldest person to go into space, at age 77. Coming 36 years after his first one, it put him in an élite club of multiple-parade honorees, including Amelia Earhart, Dwight Eisenhower and Charles de Gaulle. But there have been only two parades this decade - one for the Yankees fresh...