Word: braine
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HARVARDEDGE CORNELL QUARTERBACK: In first three games Brain White hasn't lived up to preseason billing. Has 333 completion percentage, the lowest of any Harvard starter in at least the last five years. Does have experience and is talented. Has taken blame for squad's offensive problems. Look for him to open it up today. Can run and pass. Knowns Multiflex. QUARTERBACK: In contrast to William & Mary standout Stan Yagiello--who gave the Crimson all kinds of fits last weekend--Cornell's biggest question mark has been quarterback. Senior Shawn Maguire (43-88-366) has been relieved by junior Chris...
Human rights groups have been protesting the treatment of detainees since Black Leader Steve Biko died of brain injuries suffered in a Port Elizabeth prison in 1977. Since then at least 26 black South Africans have died while in detention, 15 of them during the past year. While police officials have repeatedly denied abusing prisoners, a recent University of Cape Town study found that detainees stood an 83% chance of being tortured...
...virus that causes AIDS can be directly responsible for many severe nervous disorders and diseases like meningitis, a brain inflammation, Harvard-affiliated doctors reported yesterday...
Schooley said the disease has been thought so far to attack only the lymph system. Now, symptoms like infected cells in the spinal fluid, pains in limbs, and meninigits, an inflammation of the lining of the brain, could be indications of AIDS, he said...
...student of the fossil record, the author takes the long view: given world enough and time, accidents take on aspects of a plan. But does nature "know" this, or is a grand design the projection of the human brain? The relationship between quirkiness and meaning is the book's dominant theme, perhaps best appreciated in Gould's retelling of the joke about a woman shopping for a large chicken. The butcher puts a two-pounder, his last bird, on the scale. "Not big enough," says the woman. Pretending to weigh a larger one, the butcher presses his thumb...