Word: transportion
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This Monday, seven Harvard seniors gave up on a dream. Team Zebra had schemed to transport two live zebras to Harvard Square by midnight on Oct. 17 in order to raise money for natural disaster survivors. But Monday marked the eighth and final day of Team Z’s altruistic attempt at animal acquisition. Should have been easy, right? Apparently not. Nearly 200 (192) hours after the start of the challenge, the frustrated team members had zero zebras to show for their efforts and had even admitted defeat on their official blog. Had the team succeeded, their anonymous sponsor?...
...born.Besides a team name, participants’ names also had to be registered. Golden, who is known for her impressive trapezius muscles, went with Traps, while Rose, who considered concentrating in VES, selected Artiste.So Traps Golden and Artiste Rose packed up their gear, arranged for a trailer to transport their boat, and set out to conquer our great neighbor to the north.Then the trouble began.“Our names wouldn’t have been a problem, but they ID you when you go to the docks,” Rose said. Lacking ID that recognized them as Traps...
...flight. That's why a current project to turn an H-2A capsule into a cargo ferry bringing supplies to the ISS and returning a payload of garbage to Earth has become a particularly important dry run?a demonstration of the feasibility of using the H-2A system to transport humans into space and to get them home safely...
...with a five-speed manual shifter (don't ask for an automatic, Pontiac isn't making one). Those bezels around the gauges? They have the glint of chrome but turn out to be plastic. Then there's the question, which may arise on a weekend jaunt, of how to transport a couple grocery bags with the top down. Stowing the soft top is a snap: just press a button, unlatch a hook and it folds into the trunk with minimal effort. But don't plan on carrying more than a few Twizzlers since only a sliver of cargo space remains...
...Wagoner's shoulder strap. "Trust me. They're nice to have," says the tall and stocky former Navy SEAL. "It's for two-legged animals as well as four." Once shuttled to the Lake Charles Municipal Airport the group sits for an hour or more awaiting helicopters to transport them. "It's get geared up and then you wait," says Bond. "Unfortunately, that's how disasters work...