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...head coach at Massachusetts' Worcester State College, a Division III program, ran practices while her infant daughter was strapped on her back. "I couldn't go out and demonstrate a jump shot like I used to, but I could still walk through plays," she says of coaching with a backpack baby. Tessmer insists the arrangement was more hazardous to her than to her daughter. "She pulled my whistle back a bunch of times and almost choked me," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Are the Women Coaches? | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

...BACKPACK BULWARK A knapsack lined with a lightweight, bulletproof plate that students can use as a shield to protect against gunfire or knife blades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dashboard: Aug. 27, 2007 | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

...secret that Europeans know how to party. Countless American college students trek to the old continent every summer equipped with only a backpack as they hop from city to city to booze it up in multi-level nightclubs submerged in the drumming rhythms of techno music and pass out the next day in city caf?...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno | Title: Put Your Hands Up for Paris | 8/10/2007 | See Source »

...hard to believe that the most progressive political force in Japan still adheres to Marxism. (When I half-seriously asked one college-aged party member whether he reads the classics, he reached into his backpack and produced Volume II of the 13-volume Japanese translation of Das Kapital.) But the JCP will likely pick up protest votes in July's legislative elections, and the party is zealously recruiting new members. "I think my friends and those around me have a lot of difficulty and hardship finding themselves, having any confidence in themselves," says Suzuki, the Wako University student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside a Boutique Political Party | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

...with a bouquet of 24 roses. After a few mishaps, he managed to lure her to the Weeks Footbridge, where he dropped to one knee and proposed, presenting Lee with his grandmother’s engagement ring. “I was so nervous that I still had my backpack on,” says Huang, laughing at the awkward, book-bag-accessorized hug the two shared.The couple plans to reside in Cambridge, as Huang begins work at Foundation Strategy Group Social Impact Advisors, a non-profit that offers consulting services to foundations, governments, and non-governmental organizations...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yi-An Huang & Kristin Lee | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

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