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However, as overpowering as the offensive onslaught was, it should not overshadow a solid Crimson defensive performance. On the hill, clever junior southpaw Tom Hurley hurled hurled five, pressure-free, shutout innings to garner...
...Crimson has been extraordinarily enterprising. Only Harvard could have a student newspaper that would be so persistent, clever, annoying and ultimately successful...
National smoking-cessation programs also provide clever techniques to help people adjust to life without a cigarette dangling from their mouth. Smokenders, based in Connecticut, explains that a person puffs about 10 times for every cigarette smoked, or 200 times a day for every pack. With this in mind, the group teaches people to brush and floss after each meal in order to "give mouths plenty of that attention they're missing," says seminar director Charlotte Tausz. She also suggests "ways of engaging in noncaloric pucker responses" like sipping water through a straw or sucking on ginger root and cinnamon...
...Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos (HarperCollins; $25), Dennis Overbye has discovered a fiendishly clever way of tricking readers into understanding cosmology, the study of the entire universe. Instead of focusing on the nuts and bolts -- exotic particles, black-body radiation and the like -- Overbye draws intimate portraits of such people as Allan Sandage, once a "lean, Jimmy Stewartish" youngster and now the grand old man of cosmology; David Schramm, a Porsche-driving physicist and ex-wrestler; and Yakov Zeldovich, a sort of "Zorba the Cosmologist," who dazzled colleagues with his intuitive genius and women with his charm. By describing...
...this spring. Already, and as might be expected, reaction is divided. Fans of the work call it daring and disturbing, but when it appeared in Britain last fall, many critics dipped their pens in acid, variously describing it as lurid and dishonest, and slamming the author as a "clever child." Others have extolled it as a feminist handbook...