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...cotton underwear, since the water can seep through your pants. "It's like having a sponge out there," he says. Carrying a stick of sugarless gum in your back pocket can also help. Chewing gum creates saliva, which also helps your grip in the cold. "Lick your fingers, and wipe them off on your pants," says Hershiser. "But make it a fake wipe." But wait, isn't that a spitball? Hershiser says everyone does it, and the umpires let it go in the cold. "Look, you're just looking to recreate a normal environment," he says. "You're not gaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A World Series Prediction: Cold | 10/22/2007 | See Source »

...spent the last two weeks of August in Israel, and while some people in this country may laugh at Ahmadinejad, Israelis take very seriously his threat to wipe Israel off the map. Perhaps when people are within firing range of Iranian missiles, they develop a different point of view. Ross H. Stemer, Roswell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...quickly realized that it did not fully consider the implications of its prior statements and erred in announcing an overly broad policy. The administration’s actions also demonstrate that, despite what some conspiracy-minded students would like to believe, University Hall is not on a crusade to wipe out fun at Harvard. If that were the case, administrators would not have accommodated HoCos so quickly. Instead, the administration’s approval of simply bypassing the UC reveals that they are concerned with the oversight ability, competence and competence of the UC, especially with regard to legal liability...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Sliver of Sanity | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...renowned physicist, and his mother Lucy Ramberg an expat American poet living in a chalet in the Italian Alps when Mario was born in 1937. She had fallen in with a group of bohemian writers who believed, her son says with just a trace of bemusement, that "they could wipe out Fascism and Nazism with a pen." After the Gestapo came in 1941 to take her to Dachau, Mario landed on the streets. He was 4 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nobel Warrior | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...spent the last two weeks of August in Israel, and while some people in this country may laugh at Ahmadinejad, Israelis take very seriously his threat to wipe Israel off the map. Perhaps when people are within firing range of Iranian missiles, they develop a different point of view. Ross H. Stemer, Roswell, Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

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