However, right after he let go and followed through, Bird sensed the shot was straight but a bit long. The shooter always knows…He backed up quickly into the Laker bench, trying to will and contort the ball into going a tad bit shorter with body English one more time.

Inspect your swing at least once a year. Check the seat for splinters or loose parts and repair. Also replace any fasteners that seem rusty or worn. But right now, kick back and relax!

A few epidemiology studies have reported higher rates of tumors inside the skull among people who use cell phones heavily for 10 years or more. Of particular concern are benign Schwann cell tumors called acoustic neuromas, which affect nerve cells connecting the inner ear with structures inside the brain. These growths can in some instances progress to malignant cancer with time. But other studies have found no evidence of acoustic neuromas or brain tumors in heavy cell phone users.

I also flat-out loved driving it. I blasted in and out of New York City twice, rocketed around the streets of Gotham, darting through traffic, and cruised along the highways of New Jersey. I also enjoyed just driving it around the quiet streets of the suburb where I live.

The second half would be one of the fiercest, best, surprising and most controversial in playoff annals.

“Blue is low level, orange is medium level, red is high level. It all comes down to classifications on their criminal histories,” said the ICE Agent in charge of detentions.

Two seconds remained and Boston immediately called timeout for one last, fateful chance. But back then, scoreboard clocks did not register tenths of seconds, so there was likely as little as 1.1 seconds to go since the Garden clock had been stuck on :02 for a moment after the Johnson shot. A quick timeout was immediately signaled by DJ and Bird just after the hook swished through the net.

One of the protesters had come to Gainesville armed with a retractable baton. When the Texans began to harass them, he grabbed his baton and struck a window of the S.U.V. “My life and the lives of those around me was at risk,” he told the police. Will Fears jumped out. “I’m about to beat this dude up with his own fricking expandable baton,” he later recalled.

At any given time, as many as eight top tier Hall of Famers and nine All-Stars were on the floor at the same time.

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Creating a more natural, dynamic environment for the zoo’s chimpanzees required the design team, especially the structural engineers at Equilibrium Engineers, to take an above-the-ground approach.

McHale had 17 points and seven boards at the break, while Ainge had tallied 15 points and DJ 11. Johnson led LA with 19 in the first half, but no other Laker had more than seven.