Leverage can throw home buyers to the mat Wrestlers and black belts in judo know how important leverage is to winning a match. Even physically weaker or smaller contestants can prevail, if they get the angles and the momentum working in their favor. The same is true...more [PressHerald.com 07/23/08] RSS
What Were These Parents Thinking? I'm not going to mention where I work, but suffice to say that it is a large building with an associated retail outlet that is prominently situated on Route 1. During the tourist season, there are hordes of visitors...more [PressHerald.com 07/24/08] RSS
Come inside, the weather's free It's sort of trendy to hate malls. But I look at the mall as a veritable variety pack of free entertainment for little kids. And this time of year, when it might actually get sticky enough for a soul to...more [PressHerald.com 07/17/08] RSS
Public Art lecture tonight The Maine Center for Creativity hosts a lecture at 7 tonight at the South Portland Community Center by Maine College of Art educator Christina Bechstein. The lecture, "Making it Public: Why Puboic Art Matters," is free and open to the...more [MaineToday.com 07/24/08] RSS
Not-so-great results Texas implemented random steroid testing at the start of the 2007-2008 school year, starting the nation's largest steroid testing program (in one of the nation's largest states, go figure). But according to an Associated Press report from earlier this week,...more [PressHerald.com 07/24/08] RSS
NXT Radio: How to feel with Subject Bias Who said things were slow around the NXT Desk? Sure I was away for a week - luckily we had some folks to fill in....more [PressHerald.com 07/16/08] RSS
Big Papi means no Moss While everyone anticipates the return of David Ortiz to the Fenway Park batting box tonight against the Yankees, the activation of Ortiz meant someone had...more [PressHerald.com 07/25/08] RSS
Danica: Finally picking on someone her own size Here are a few things running through my brain at the moment: The video below is of Danica Patrick going over to Milka Duno after a practice session. Says Danica, "It's not my fault that you're slow." Funny stuff right...more [PressHerald.com 07/24/08] RSS
A greener way to the other side After a lifetime of recycling, composting, turning down the thermostat and trying to eat local organic food, some people might not want to leave their...more [PressHerald.com 07/18/08] RSS
A rant Enough already. Please stop. Moss is growing between my fingers....more [PressHerald.com 07/24/08] RSS
Ups and downs Landing was a huge success. The first pictures from Mars were amazing! And they continue to be so. We've seen Mars as no one before, landing in the Martian Arctic for the first time. We've seen Mars at the microscopic...more [PressHerald.com 06/12/08] RSS
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