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...road gets no easier for Harvard or for its bats. The Crimson will travel to Amherst tomorrow for a doubleheader versus No. 21 UMass, and the Minute women are likely to throw senior ace Danielle Henderson in at least one game. Henderson is in the top 20 on the NCAA career strikeouts list...
...road gets no easier for Harvard or for its bats. The Crimson will travel to Amherst tomorrow for a doubleheader versus No. 21 UMass, and the Minutewomen are likely to throw senior ace Danielle Henderson in at least one game. Henderson is in the top-20 on the NCAA career strikeouts list, and threw her 10th career no-hitter April 1 against Vermont...
...Crimson salvaged a split in Saturday'sdoubleheader thanks to Birtwell's ace and athree-run rally in the third that provided all ofthe game's runs, sticking Princeton starter JohnRowland (1-2) with a complete-game loss...
...could sense Ehrenreich's motivation but no dent in sociobiology. She overlooks the most striking evidence ("normal frequency" of intercourse: daily to weekly), which shows that the human sexual impulse is coupled to pleasure. It appears reproductively senseless only at the individual level but is probably the ace that ensured Homo sapiens' domination of the planet. (Hinduism recognizes this connection as one of the prime goals in life.) Familyists should welcome it as a great elixir for the daily tussle and tumble inevitable in marital life. This synergy between reproduction and pleasure explains the huge social benefit a family offers...
After the war, Turing returned to Cambridge, hoping to pick up the quiet academic life he had intended. But the newly created mathematics division of the British National Physical Laboratory offered him the opportunity to create an actual Turing machine, the ACE or Automatic Computing Engine, and Turing accepted. What he discovered, unfortunately, was that the emergency spirit that had short-circuited so many problems at Bletchley Park during the war had dissipated. Bureaucracy, red tape and interminable delays once again were the order of the day. Finding most of his suggestions dismissed, ignored or overruled, Turing eventually left...