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...program has only grown since its launch. There are now several licensed massage therapists on staff, specializing in techniques such as shiatsu, sports injury, deep tissue and general relaxation. Stressed-out students can make pilgrimages to UHS, where they can pay for massage therapy with check, credit card or the trusty termbill. These mini-massages are available Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Center for Wellness and Health Communication and Fridays from noon to 2 p.m. at the UHS pharmacy in the Holyoke Center...
Unlike the statistics that appear on the back of a baseball card, which are either counting (total home runs or wins) or percentage (batting average or slugging percentage), Morris’s formula was derived from a technique in academic statistics known as Markovian modeling, which he says makes it qualitatively different from any statistic a casual fan would be familiar with. RPG, Morris says, takes much of the interpretation out of statistics (different fans may value on-base percentage or RBI differently, and sabermetricians frequently assign debatable weights to statistics such as stolen bases) and says with statistical certainty...
Besides baseball and hospitals, perhaps the most obvious application of statistics is to gambling. In the 1960s, Morris and Cover frequently capitalized on their knowledge of statistics at the blackjack table. “We’d get kicked out of casinos for counting cards,” Morris recalls. “[Cover] is a great gambler. Back then, they’d deal one deck down to the last card, so sometimes you knew exactly what...
...Appearing in adults-only Hong Kong movies was tougher for actresses, who might be quickly and permanently typecast once they had bared all, and for whom Cat III was not so much a calling card for stardom as a brand of shame. Yet Loletta Lee could go from teen cutie (in ?Shanghai Blues?) to sex-film siren (in the Cat III ?Sex and Zen II?) to a Best Actress citation from the Hong Kong Film Awards (for Ann Hui?s ?Ordinary Heroes?). And Hsu Chi, the Taiwanese lovely who had posed pink for photo books - and who made her Hong...
Bergman and Martire also entered the doubles competition as a wild-card entry but lost to teams from Kentucky and Illinois in eight-game pro sets, both times by an 8-3 final...