3. Murmansk, Russia, Is the Biggest City Around 295,000 people live in Murmansk, a port city founded in 1916 at the height of World War I. One of its Soviet-era landmarks, the 236-foot (72-meter) Arktika Hotel, is the tallest building north of the Arctic Circle. The region's ...
Through interviews with coaches, teammates, analysts, confidants, opponents and witnesses, here lies an oral history of what is often considered the greatest in-game dunk ever, and the motivation of the man who delivered it.Carter relives Olympic dunk over 7-foot-2 cen...
whose cheekbone was shoved dangerously close to his brain when he was hit by a pitch in the face more than 40 years ago, said, "For all humanoids, those who breathe, when someone throws a baseball from 60 feet and throws it really hard, the FIRST thought is ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, '...
There is a culture of pretending business programming is more than it is. Some of you calling for more Java in University may take false hope that I am on your side. You may think that the people arguing for Scheme, Haskell, and OCaml are elitists. Wrong. They do not have a problem....
Championships in Eugene last June smashing his PB to 43.85 and finished third at the US Olympic Trials in 44.74. This year Ross improved his indoor PB to 44.83 in Clemson last February. He is coached by his father Duane Ross, who won the world bronze medal in the 110m hurdles in ...
His record is a 9.58 second 100-meter dash attained at the 2009 track world championships. That's a max speed of 27.4 mph (44 kph) and an average speed of 23.4 mph (37.7 kph). In other words, if Bolt and I were in a race, then by the time you read this entire sentence you'd...
With four dead and a mess at Altamont, Rolling Stone tries to get to the bottom of what really happened at the festival.
Ampeater Music is a website devoted to bridging the gap between unsigned (or just plain underexposed) artists and music lovers everywhere. Every day we feature a different artist on what we call The Ampeater Review. Each fea
“normal” after having a baby. You may discover that there is a “new normal,” as some things may not return to exactly how they were before. This is only natural—you’ve just had a baby, so some things are bound to change. Here is what you may notice or feel in the months ...
54. I can’t express myself very well in English.不能用英语很好地表达. 55. For the time being.目前. 56. This milk has gone bad.牛奶坏了. 57. It’up in the air.尚无定论. 58. That is beyond me/way over my head.无能为力,无法效劳.对我而言这实在太难了. ...