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...another to rescue someone or escape in an emergency. The sport, sometimes called free running, has been seeping into American consciousness in recent years via upwards of 25,000 YouTube clips as well as more mainstream forms of entertainment. Tony Heinz, 19, a freshman at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, says he told his parents last year that he had started practicing parkour, but they didn't really get what he was talking about until more recently, when he asked if they had seen the James Bond film Casino Royale. "Yes," they responded. "Do you remember the chase scene...
...issue does not appear to have been challenged in federal court previously, though the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 2005 that a Wisconsin law forbidding incest among blood relations (but not including step-relations) did not conflict with Lawrence's ruling. But in upholding prison sentences for a brother-sister couple in that case, the court acknowledged that the language in Lawrence is all but certain to prompt more challenges to prosecutions for sex-related crimes on privacy grounds...
Some lingering critics still found wiggle room in the U.N. panel's findings. "I think there is a healthy debate ongoing, even though the scientists who are in favor of doing something on greenhouse gases are in the majority," says Republican Congressman James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin. But when your last good position is to debate the difference between certain and extra certain, you're playing a losing hand. "The science," says Christine Todd Whitman, former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (epa), "now is getting to the point where it's pretty hard to deny." Indeed it is. Atmospheric levels...
When Nathan M. Pusey ’28 ascended to the Harvard presidency in 1953, Joseph McCarthy was beginning his second term as the junior senator from Wisconsin. Pusey was a respected academic from Lawrence College; McCarthy, an opportunistic demagogue spreading jingoism across postwar America. The two men had little to do with each other, and had Pusey been elected the head of a less influential institution, McCarthy may never have heard his name. But Pusey, as president of Harvard, quickly realized he had tremendous influence over the nation’s academic discourse. He chose to challenge creeping McCarthyism...
Last year, it was a season of highs and lows for the Radcliffe lightweights. The Black and White began its campaign with a thorough thumping of Georgetown on the Charles River, winning by over eleven seconds. The following weekend, Radcliffe posted a dominating victory over rivals Wisconsin, Princeton, and the Hoyas at the Knecht Cup. But as the season progressed, the competition strengthened, and by the time the IRA National Championships began, the Black and White had been overtaken. It was not surprising to see the Badgers pull in front of Radcliffe, as the now two-time defending national championships...