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Dining halls are now serving up nutrition information on a high-tech array of glowing flat-screen monitors that cost them thousands of dollars...
...first modern track-and-field athlete to win gold in four consecutive Olympics--only Carl Lewis has since accomplished that feat--but Al Oerter, the discus-throwing sensation of the 1950s and '60s, was decidedly low-tech. (A favorite training tool was a flip book that showed the movements of a hurler.) He won first place in the Games of 1956, '60, '64 and '68, in each case competing and setting Olympic records despite injuries. "These are the Olympics," he said. "You die before you quit." Oerter was 71 and died of heart failure...
...latest firestorm in college football was sparked two weeks ago, when Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy unexpectedly utilized his post-game press conference following an impressive win by the Cowboys over Texas Tech to go ballistic on local sports columnist Jenni Carlson. Carlson had penned a column in The Oklahoman suggesting that recently demoted OSU quarterback Bobby Reid had failed to demonstrate enough toughness—citing an observed incident of Reid being fed chicken by his mother as an off-the-field parallel—as a signal-caller before his benching. In the Gundy?...
...search results from other engines - sites like Dogpile.com, MyWebSearch.com and Mamma.com. While the users of these kinds of sites skew female, the typical profile for meta-search engines is a less technically sophisticated user who tends to be 55 or older. Initially meta-search was a favorite of the tech-savvy user - in the early years of search, it wasn't uncommon to find drastically different results on the major sites, and meta-search engines served a very useful purpose of providing a comprehensive set of results. But in today's world, where there is substantial parity between engines, their...
...made it hard to run as a tight pack, but the team managed.” Top individual honors at the invitational went to Villanova’s Bobby Curtis, who crossed the line at 23:39 on the men’s side, and Sally Kipyego of Texas Tech, who finished at 19:59 in the women’s race. Villanova also finished first in the men’s standings, while Princeton claimed first in the women’s race...