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...city convulsed, attention by the national media was scarce. After the second night of violent riots, The New York Times ran only a 94-word brief from the Associated Press—right next to a similar brief on the South Carolina lottery. CNN did not begin reporting until Wednesday, and the Washington Post carried only 172 words the following...
...Ralph Schumacher, of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Marian Garfinkel, a yoga teacher, published a brief paper on carpal tunnel syndrome in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The eight-week study determined that "a yoga-based regimen was more effective than wrist splinting or no treatment in relieving some symptoms and signs of carpal tunnel syndrome." Letters to JAMA challenged the study's methodology. The authors replied that it was a preliminary investigation to determine if further research was merited. They said...
...experiencing Blue Man Group. For those of us looking to let loose, to go wild, to scream in public or to make that sound that they used to make on The Arsenio Hall Show—you know the one—Blue Man Group can provide a brief respite from our collective inhibitions...
Watching the brief clips of the Crimson legends weaving through opposing defenses in front of rabid sellout crowds was simply inspiring. Those waiting to see Michigan State's Ryan Miller become the second goaltender to win the award were confronted with just how dominant Harvard...
...most unusual communication was with the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time (almost 9 million copies sold), whose battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) did not keep him from visiting Caltech in March. Charles e-mailed Hawking's assistant, and after making two small editing changes requested by Hawking, received a FedEx package from California the next day. Inside was a piece of paper bearing Hawking's freshly made right thumbprint...