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...those boys was senior defensive end Mike Sands. He epitomizes "tough"--over his four years, he's strained his medial collateral ligament, separated his shoulder and broken a thumb. But he hasn't missed a game...
...Unfortunately for Sands, his senior year hasn't turned out to be all the glamour and glory he hoped it would be. In addition to the personal pain of injuring his thumb, the team's devastating losses and dismal record make Sands frustrated...
...musings about the wisdom of a brain swap, Tufts University philosopher Daniel Dennett concluded that it was not an even exchange. "It was clear that my current body and I could part company, but not likely that I could be separated from my brain," he wrote. "The rule of thumb [is] that in a brain-transplant operation, one want[s] to be the donor, not the recipient...
Bent like an arthritic thumb high above the antarctic ice cap, the mountain's uppermost point was so small and precarious that it could accommodate only one person at a time. So I shivered on a ledge in the subzero breeze and waited for my partners, first Alex and then Conrad, to climb the final 20 ft. to the summit. We'd been on the move for 14 hours. My back hurt, and I had lost all feeling in my toes. But as my eyes wandered across the frozen vastness of Queen Maud Land, a sense of profound contentment radiated...
...Continuing to thumb through images of teens looking rugged and rebellious in their button-downs, she points out the prevalence of non-fashion related articles, arguing that their inclusion is also a product of marketing. "They know that they're marketing to young people skeptical of consumerism, so they put in articles to try and hook them." Stopping on a particularly alternative-looking Abercrombie lad opposite an article skeptical of corporate greed, Schor shakes her head, "They're capitalizing on the notion of counter-culture from the 60's, when in fact they're as dominant culture...