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Arena football is supposed to speed the game up by keeping the clock running until the last minute of play. Now, the only drawback with the running clock is that the teams have 40 seconds to get the ball into play, which often leaves the players standing around with nothing...
...planning the train, Japanese engineers chose superconducting magnets ( because for a given input of electricity they generate more intense magnetic fields -- and thus greater lifting and propulsion power -- than conventional electromagnets. The drawback: the liquid-helium coolant needed for the superconducting magnets is expensive, and a heavy compressor is required in each coach to reliquefy the evaporating helium. That is why maglev engineers are excited by the idea of the new high-temperature superconductors, which would use considerably less expensive liquid nitrogen as a coolant and require far smaller compressors. The developments of the past few months, says Research Chief...
Swimming to Cambodia is brilliant and entertaining and should definitely be seen. Its only drawback is that, as Gray says, "it's all true except the part about the banana...
Harvard's residential system gives student life stability and creates communities in which each student is an integral member. Yet what is arguably the best feature of Harvard life can also be its greatest drawback. Rather than living in neighborhoods which reflect the true character of the College, we live in self-defined islands which do not even begin to capture the nature of Harvard's student population. Although we experience Harvard's mythologized diversity during our freshman year, that pretty much ends when we leave the Yard...
...play's main strength is its fast-paced verbal virtuosity, then its drawback is the lack of substance beneath the glibness. The Day Room wants to be a serious play done humorously, but it is the humor that ultimately dominates weakest moments occur when the characters are forced to face the logical ramifications of their illogical world. Had DeLillo taken his own contrivances less seriously, the audience would be spared monologues on such silly questions as: what if the world is just a figment of one's imagination? It is a child's question, as DeLillo admits; but then...