(My hope is) for it to be a first-class facility that will serve the citizens of Orangeburg and Orangeburg County while also being a facility that will attract teams from all over the Southeast to play on our fields, use our hotels and eat at our restaurants. (It) is going to be a definite economic benefit to the community. |
[--The Giants had won their first two games of the season, and in the process allowed only 29 points. They had been second in the NFL in total yards allowed via the running game. But Sunday night, San Diego rushed for 268 total net yards on 33 carries, an average of 8.1 per carry.] We stunk, ... but that won't happen again. |
[At first, driving the chair was a bit of an intimidating process, admitted Steve Bauer, who's considering buying one. But it gets easier when you accept it's just that -- a process.] It's just a matter of technique and when you get the technique down, you don't have to pull so hard, ... Everything is a sequence of buttons. |
[At Harvey Nichols in Edinburgh, shoppers are greeted by a dramatic series of optical illusions in the store's new seasonal window display.] It is about retail as theatre, ... Our customers want to come in and be entertained so we have DJs in menswear, or we play movies on screens. Merchandising has to be very eye-catching. |
[Boxer doesn't want to ruin surprises for her readers, but says she couldn't do some of the things Ellen did in the Supreme Court battle.] I wouldn't want to have to do it the way she did it, ... My world is the real world, her world is the fiction world. I wouldn't want to have what happens in the book happen in real life. |
[For 10 minutes all seven crew members run back and forth in a tight line, stepping carefully between the 15-foot-long ladder's sections.] This is for footwork and agility, ... We need our guys to move in concert when they jump over the wall, and this helps them realize how the other guys move. It also helps build teamwork. |
[For Liberty native and architecture historian Douglas Lewis, every Coast building has a story. The combination of French Creole and English architecture distinguishes the Coast from any other place on the nation's coastline, said Lewis, author of the forthcoming] Buildings of Mississippi ... Buildings of the United States. |
[Guillermo Canas is in New York with girlfriend/player Maria Emilia Salerni , however the US Open will not let him on the grounds:] It's very ugly. He is no criminal, ... This is beyond of what it should be. I didn't even know that rule existed. It's insane. Allowing him to see his girlfriend's matches wouldn't hurt anyone. |
|
[Holyfield believes that his boxing success is a good platform from which to spread the gospel. Before Saturday he believed that people would watch the fight thinking, I want to see what God is going to do for him against Tyson.] I will beat Mike Tyson, ... There is no way I cannot, if I just trust in God. God is that good. |
|
[In the technical industry, there is concern about losing workers in highly technical jobs, such as engineering and science.] The concern is if you have a large proportion leaving at the same time, ... how is that knowledge being captured (transferred)? Many companies are looking at how to do this through phased retirement. |
Barbara Bush (1925-) |
[Sound familiar? Don't despair. Who says Mother Nature isn't ripe for a con? Helen Fisher suspects that you can fool your biochemistry into believing you're still back in the chase phase.] Novel experiences drive up levels of dopamine in the brain, ... can stimulate the release of testosterone, the hormone of sexual desire. |
[The last time they saw each other face-to-face was June, before Evans left for Iraq. One of the last times the men spoke, Evans seemed excited about coming home on leave in December and going hunting.] He was so full of life, he had such an infectious personality, ... He was always busy and on the move, great to be around. |