Word: stringing
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Shevchik earned most of the Crimson's 20 points for the meet. His performance kept up Harvard's string of strong showings at the NCAAs. The Crimson finished 24th in 1999 and 11th...
...with all rulings that appear to erode First Amendment rights, the judgment left many civil libertarians with a sour taste in their mouths. Some take issue with the notion that the addition of a G-string and pasties on a dancer would reduce the crime and other problems associated with erotic entertainment. Others warn that once you begin to limit speech, the slope becomes very slippery. "In past cases the Court allowed municipalities to use zoning to limit nude bars," says Sanders. "Now they're saying you can actually regulate the content of speech, and that's dangerous ground." Still...
...mainline service in North America. Tom Savio, a former stationmaster and now a rail-travel consultant, says the black-and-silver locomotive, which "blends Canadian robustness and English Art Deco streamlining," is "one of the most aesthetically pleasing ever built." During the spring and summer months, 2860 pulls a string of vintage passenger cars along tracks that hug the top of a cliff 100 ft. above Howe Sound, north of Vancouver. The 80-mile round trip, much of it poised over the water below, offers views of pretty islands, the Strait of Georgia, lush forests, a span of glaciers, coastal...
...breeding ground for these infectiously growing programs. Founder Shawn Fanning, 19, wrote the original code for Napster while he was a freshman computer-science major at Boston's Northeastern University. An admittedly lousy guitar player, Fanning began writing the code so he could distribute his own six-string doodlings and squelch his roomie's constant whining about unreliable MP3 search engines. Back in the MP3 stone age--you know, eight months ago--too many links to too many tunes were outdated or invalid, frustrating many a prospective pirate...
...traveled by burning a petroleum by-product called gasoline. We will have produced children by having sexual intercourse. Ours, we will be told, was a primitive era. How can we expect to be taken seriously, we will be asked, when our high school physics class did not even teach string theory...