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Brown poses an immediate challenge for a team coming off of the long rest imposed by final exams. The Bears boast two of the league’s best scorers, guard Earl Hunt (21.3 points per game) and forward Alai Nuualiitia (11.9 ppg). Six times this season, Brown has scored over 90 points...
...Bears (4-13, 1-3 Ivy) boast the Ivy Player of the Week in senior Rada Pavichevich, who scored a career-high 24 points in Brown’s 73-57 win over Yale last Saturday. She also added two steals and three assists for team-leading tallies of 34 steals and 43 assists. Pavichevich is averaging 16.3 points per game in Ivy games, while sophomore Nyema Mitchell is next on the Bears roster with 9.3 points per game in league play...
Salmon that are free to roam the ocean enjoy a diet of fresh fish, which have eaten smaller fish, which in turn have eaten still smaller fish. At the bottom of that food chain are algae, the key to salmon's health benefits. Algae boast a special kind of fat, known as omega-3 fatty acids, that seems to help the heart. Omega-3s prevent platelets in the blood from clumping together and sticking to arterial walls in the form of plaque. They also drive down triglycerides and LDL (bad) cholesterol. Researchers suspect that omega-3s may block the production...
Sullivan then quickly switched gears for the up-tempo, high-scoring Quakers, who boast the best inside-outside game in the conference. He benched Prasse-Freeman and Coleman at the right times, and his gamble with Beatty paid...
...Signac never hurt anyone, though he was right in the thick of the closest relationship between political and aesthetic radicalism that the 19th century could show. In sum, he seems to have had no enemies, an almost incredible achievement in any art world. Lucky the artist who can boast such a life--not that Signac was given to bragging...