Word: winded
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...avoiding the threat of smugness that lurks in his role - from John Krasinski. Maybe the film loses a little steam as it rolls along, but it is still puffing and tooting as Clooney and Zellweger ride off into the sunset - on a comically raffish period motorcycle, free as the wind...
That is still a big if. Mugabe could deploy the security forces, as he has before, to try to cling to power. But a wind of change is in the air. Once one of Africa's most prosperous nations, Zimbabwe has been wrecked by Mugabe's disastrous policies. Inflation is running at an annual rate of more than 100,000%, and millions have left for havens elsewhere...
...keep the game close. With one out, Haviland worked around the Crusaders’ top hitter, Brendan Akashian (1-for-3, RBI) and put him on with a walk.One out later and a stolen base later, first baseman Eric Oxford delivered a triple that was helped by some forceful winds, and Akashian came around with the run that put Holy Cross on top for good.“[Akashian] is their best guy, I’ve played against him in the summer,” Haviland said. “The wind was blowing out, and I wanted...
...lack of equality bother them, F1 fans embrace the technological warfare that defines their sport. For this year's championship, each of the leading teams has spent around $300 million on building and fine-tuning its cars. Behind the drivers is a network of boffins - engineers, mechanics, wind-tunnel experts - charged with analyzing the performance of every system of last year's model with the goal of making the new one faster. Inevitably, the high stakes have led to skulduggery. The sport's governing body, the Paris-based International Automobile Federation (FIA), last year fined McLaren a record $100 million...
...double-leg amputee who has used Carroll's designs to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and the face of El Capitan, has led to the introduction of better mainstream limbs for people who don't use them to ascend ice walls. "We come up with a one-off thing, and we wind up with some phenomenal technology," says Carroll. For his clients, that means equally phenomenal mobility...