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...retching on the course. When she lifted her head up, she realized that two of the guys she had been competing with were standing there waiting for her. She was 40 miles out in the woods alone, and they wanted to make sure she was O.K. They took her to an aid station, and once she was cared for, they took off [for] the finish line. You get a sense of real camaraderie out there because ultimately it's about everyone pulling together. See TIME's top 10 fringe world titles...
...players have developed the physique and technique to take advantage of the extra width by whipping the racket up in a motion that generates about five times more spin than the ground strokes players were hitting in the 1970s. "Players were given an inch in the 1970s and they took a mile," he says...
...Took 'em long enough.' PAUL HOUSE, a 47-year-old former death-row inmate, on learning he had been exonerated after 22 years in a Tennessee prison...
...stood in the rose garden on May 19 with state governors and auto executives to announce a new deal that tightens automobile fuel-efficiency standards, Barack Obama took note of the glorious weather. "The sun is out because good things are happening," he said...
...many of the features that they wanted in the Gen Ed thing that they were thinking about as being new except for me they weren’t really new.”What are we students, educated in transition, to make of this incoherence? It took the Faculty four years to introduce a well-intentioned and entirely inoffensive educational philosophy to replace the Core, and the result (at least for current students) has been a raft of new names for old courses.The truth is that it was always possible, under the Core program, to obtain a worthwhile education...