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...Roxbury Memorial High for drumming incessantly on his desk. At 20 years of age, he collected a letter inviting him to join Luis Russell’s band at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. He accepted. “The rest,” said Haynes, fresh from his 85th birthday just two weeks ago, “is history...

Author: By Jon J. Andrews, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Roy Haynes Excels in Birthday Concert | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

Rousmaniere’s free-kick goal in the 85th minute was the icing on the cake for Harvard, which will now have to turn its attention to Maryland...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Round Three Awaits | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...President, he paid uncommon attention and courtesy to the four living Presidents who preceded him in office. Bush already enjoys a good relationship with Clinton. If Bush is not the most active former President, he is certainly the gamest: he jumped out of an airplane to mark his 85th birthday last summer, as he said recently, "to remind people that getting older doesn't mean you have to slow down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Obama Meets Bush 41: A Bipartisan Boost? | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

...subsequent cross into the box found Hagner, who volleyed home her first goal of the year. With the game well in hand, Harvard did its best to run out the clock with possession, but Yale continued to press and was awarded a penalty kick in the 85th minute after senior forward Emma Whitfield went to the ground inside the penalty box. Crimson junior keeper Lauren Mann saved the penalty, taken by the Bulldogs’ Maggie Westfal, but Westfal collected the rebound and calmly finished, making the score 3-1 in favor of Harvard. The Bulldogs saw one more decent...

Author: By Tony Bator, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Breakout Day for Crimson Offense | 10/5/2008 | See Source »

...childhood-obesity levels may finally have leveled off, more than 30% of American schoolchildren are still overweight, with little indication that rates will drop anytime soon. The CDC defines as overweight those children with a body mass index (BMI)--a rough factoring of height and weight--higher than the 85th percentile of figures from the 1960s and '70s, before the obesity epidemic hit. Obesity is defined as the 95th percentile. That's far from healthy. "The childhood obesity epidemic is a tsunami," says David Ludwig, an obesity researcher at Children's Hospital in Boston and the author of Ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Not Just Genetics | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

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