Word: training
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...haven't had much time in the net so far," Meagher said. "But I learned a lot from [Dupuis]. I learned how to have the attitude of a successful college goalkeeper. I learned how to train and work hard so that I can succeed...
Prosecutors said the summer school student--a sixteen-year old native of Puerto Rico--missed the last train from the Boston College train stop back to Harvard Square last Thursday. When she walked to the street and tried to hail a cab at around 12:30 am, Wodja offered her a ride back to Harvard...
There's a high wind in the Bahamas, and it's heading for the East Coast. The numbers are so large as to be almost beyond comprehension, and only comparison will do ? a storm the size of Texas, blowing winds faster than a speeding bullet train. The hurricane called Floyd is nearing what meteorologists call Class Five status, which means it would have sustained winds of over 156 miles per hour, with gusts even higher than that. Andrew, which killed 26 and caused $25 billion in damage in 1992, may be remembered as the little one ? it was only...
...might convey. Stymied at every turn, Djorgovski is pinning his hopes on investigating the object's invisible infrared emissions, which have wavelengths slightly longer than the red light at one end of the visible spectrum. Within the next few weeks, astronomers at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii will train a telescope equipped with an experimental infrared spectrograph on the quarry. What it captures could be revealing. "Our hope," says Djorgovski, "is that by seeing the longer wavelengths on the spectrum, we might actually notice a pattern that is familiar...
...perhaps we should fight the problem head on. An extremely potent health argument could be made about the harm this is causing the uncelled in the form of, well, secondhand noise. It makes me very tense to be around someone who's calling the office from the train when he should be napping like the rest of us. My blood pressure goes into the red zone when I hear a cell person honk, "Hello! Wha--? Hello! Are you there? Hello!" especially when I know good and well that they lost their connection five minutes ago, only they haven't shut...