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...hardest one was definitely the ice. The reason wasn't just that the ice was continually dripping onto my head and shoulders for the entire three days and three nights. I didn't get any sleep, and the sleep deprivation starts to tweak your brain. So I went into an altered mental state and then went into hallucinations, and it really became very, very difficult. That was one I know I could never do again. Towards the middle of it, I knew it was going to be unbearable. [In comparison] the coffin was like a vacation. That...
...Quality Control Manager Jaime Schier instructed Eisele on ingredient selection and brewing methods.“I spent several days talking to him about what sort of things to look for, how different brewing techniques would influence the final character of the beer, [and] ways you could tweak things to make the beer taste one way or another,” Shier says.Impressed by Eisele’s enthusiasm and attention to detail, Shier notes Eisele was never without notebook in-hand.“When I worked with him, he whipped it out at least 20 times to scribble...
...hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics. Feel-good investor sentiment surrounding the August Games, the thinking went, would prop up overvalued stocks, allowing time for revenues of booming Chinese companies to grow into their inflated share prices. When markets were peaking last fall, some investors predicted that the government would tweak the economy to keep it roaring during the Olympics year, and that if all else failed, China's regulators would find ways to prop up a plummeting stock market, so that disgruntled Chinese would not spoil the festive sporting atmosphere by complaining about the loss of their life savings...
Although the Gen Ed committee approved two existing Core courses, the instructors said they planned to tweak them slightly. Shepsle, for instance, said that although his Social Analysis class, “Talking About Politics,” currently does not assign problem sets, he said he is considering incorporating them next year...
...most successful season in the five-year history of the program.Still, the best team in the country has a plan.“Cornell came in having clearly studied us closely on film,” Cahow said. “So we’re trying to tweak the things that we do. We have to be able to make any kind of play on the ice.”Harvard’s players also have plenty of respect for Clarkson’s defensive abilities. “They have good goaltending, so we want...