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Last night, the Crimson basked in "the thrill of victory" as it erased the memory of its loss to Princeton with a dramatic win against the Queens College Knights in the first round of the EIVA playoffs...
...your stock at five or 10 times the offering price--sometimes all in the same day--in the hope that you would soon become the next Intel or Microsoft. That money was a magnet for executives of boring old-economy companies, who joined dotcom start-ups for the thrill of working 20-hour days in return for wheelbarrowfuls of options. And certainly, lots of people got filthy rich...
...This Darling wonderland is the annual convention of the National Junior Classical League (NJCL). It was in this organization of 56,000 high school Latin and Greek students that Sterling first savored the thrill of running it all, or at least appearing to. Now, in the National Senior Classical League (NSCL), college students who also flock to the NJCL convention to "feed the JCL addiction," Sterling and his suits still reign...
Remember the childhood thrill of twirling in circles until the world spun wildly and you couldn't stand on your feet? That's how many of my former patients described their disorienting bouts with dizziness--especially the elderly ones. As many as 38% of older Americans struggle to keep their world stationary, trying to avoid dangerous falls and potentially life-threatening injuries. Dizziness is so common among seniors that patients and their doctors tend to write it off as an inevitable consequence of aging...
...every good thriller does, this one starts with a thrill: a helicopter smashes into the face of the Statue of Liberty. That brings on an architectural restorer; her fiance, an N.Y.P.D. detective; and her former lover, a research neurologist who can repair brain damage and bad attitudes with a computer and molecular smart bombs. An ingenious bio-tech love triangle ensues, as does the hunt for a sadistic killer with an acetylene torch. Then it's back to the top of Lady Liberty for the climax, a breakneck update of the finale to Hitchcock's 1942 tingler, Saboteur...