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During lunch, dinner (up until seven o’clock), and Sunday brunch, a guest may only eat in Winthrop if accompanied by a resident; in Lowell, the same rule applies, except that dinner restrictions lift 15 minutes earlier and there are no rules on Saturdays...
...cancers. (Scientists have yet to study whether telomeres influence a person's appearance.) Last year's Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to three American scientists for their work in the field, and many scientists now believe that telomeres are the closest we may come to identifying a biological clock - and our best bet for learning how to stop or turn back that clock. (See portraits of centenarians...
...film and books, and her taste in decadent demigods was impeccable, from Charles Baudelaire to William Burroughs. But she was drifting into a prosaic life. The previous year she had gotten pregnant, dropped out of a teachers' college, placed the baby with an adoptive family and started punching a clock in a textbook factory. In desperation she lunged for New York City with her drawing pencils and a copy of Rimbaud. Straight off the bus she headed to look up friends in Brooklyn and stumbled upon Mapplethorpe, sound asleep. "He was pale and slim with masses of dark curls, lying...
Harvard easily took the rest of the contest as the Crimson never led by less than 22 points. Alemany made a three-pointer with 2:52 left on the clock to extend the gap to 28, and the squad coasted to its third...
Fifty seconds into the second power play, Bassett fired the puck from the perimeter. This time, Snikeris couldn’t stop it, as senior Randi Griffin buried the co-captain’s slapshot with 21 ticks left on the clock...