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...movie hasn't done well, but that doesn't seem to matter to kids who are dreaming of that classic toy. My assignment: to find that train. How difficult could it be, especially in a sea of Nintendo lovers? But two high-end boutiques, five discount behemoths and many blank looks later, anxiety sets...
...blank space that Brown reported in the 1st century astronomical accounts where there should have been notice of Jesus' star has not prevented thousands of enthusiasts from attempting to locate it retroactively. Supernovas, comets and planetary conjunctions have all had their day. No less an eminence weighed in than the astronomer Johannes Kepler, whose laws first accurately plotted the planets' revolutions around the sun. He noted that a triple conjunction of Jupiter, Saturn and Mars, which he observed in 1604, could produce an appropriate extended effect. Moreover, he calculated that it recurs every 805 years, which means that it came...
...years sleep researchers focused most of their attention on REM sleep because, frankly, it seemed more interesting--all those dreams and everything. But they kept running into blank walls. Early work that tried to link REM sleep to learning foundered when scientists discovered that their test subjects could remember long lists of new words or facts whether or not they got any REM sleep. Indeed, an Israeli man with a piece of shrapnel in his brain became famous in sleep circles for not getting any REM sleep at all. Despite that, he went to law school and seems to have...
...Asking freshmen to describe themselves in three words often elicits blank stares...
Less than five minutes into the game, Harvard had already battled its way to two point-blank chances from just beyond Howard’s crease, converting on the second to earn a 1-0 lead. On that tally, which slipped out of a cloud of skaters in front of the net, junior Charlie Johnson fought for two or more rebound whacks that found Howard’s pads, while freshman Jon Pelle, the initial shooter, managed at least the one that crossed the goal line...