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...audiences’ eyes grew wide at the sight before them—two barefooted women, one bent over, blowing into her soprano sax pointed down to the ground, the other with her leg brought up to her chest. Ever so slowly, the leg lowered and rested on the full length of the saxophonist’s back, in a feat expected only from a contortionist...
...Happily for Murali, in a judgment in Dubai last week, the International Cricket Council (ICC) declared that analysis of video footage showed that "99%" of all bowlers, including many cricket greats, bent their arms excessively. The investigating committee proposed that the ICC loosen the rules and allow arms to be bent up to 15 degrees. A relieved Murali told TIME: "Cricket should be a gentleman's game. Now I hope it can be again...
...campus where recent election polls have confirmed a liberal bent, Mowery may be alone. Asked if he knew fellow Keyes voters at Harvard, Mowery laughed, “I think I might be the only person of all of Harvard who voted for him. Whenever I tell anyone I voted for Alan Keyes, they go, ‘What...
...depleted" uranium imported from the former West Germany in 1976. That was a red flag for the IAEA, because depleted uranium is no good for power-plant fuel and creates more plutonium when it decays than does ordinary uranium. When the agency found out, "it really got people bent out of shape," says Mark Hibbs, Asia and Europe editor at industry publication Nucleonics Week. "That made them very keen to explore more about...
Given Princeton’s bent towards a sort of celebration of excellence in a cornucopia of fields and not academics alone—that is to say its love of winning basketball, soccer and lacrosse games, and maybe football, too, if only its program weren’t so wretched—its superiority in this one facet, and only this one, should come as little surprise...