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...have staying power. Research from Yale University, Johns Hopkins and elsewhere shows that people over 50 who train regularly gain muscle strength and can improve their performance, relative to their potential, faster than people in their 20s. Put another way, it's easier for boomers to slow their biological clock than it is for, say, their kids. Now, that's incentive...
...play in the half.As if the Crimson had not spotted the Big Red enough of a cushion, Pizzotti threw his second interception of the day on the first play of Harvard’s next drive, giving Cornell the ball at the Crimson 39 with 2:13 on the clock. The defense stiffened, holding the Big Red to a field goal, but Cornell pulled to within a touchdown, 19-12, with 54 seconds remaining in the second quarter.The second half started in much the same fashion, with the Big Red marching to the Harvard 20-yard line before being held...
...energetic rock anthems—had come to the Middle East. They were touring in support of their latest record, “Get Lonely,” and I couldn’t have been more excited. That is, until about five o’clock that afternoon. “No team in major league history had held a seven-game lead with 17 games to play and not made the playoffs. On Sept. 12, the day the Mets led the National League East by seven games, Baseball Prospectus, the noted statistical Web site, rated New York?...
...Jesuit-made horse head - one of a set of 12 Chinese zodiac symbols that adorned a palace water clock - was to have been a highlight of Sotheby's fall auctions in Hong Kong next week. But bitter memories were aroused from the moment its inclusion in the bidding became public. In 2000, ox, monkey and tiger heads from the same water clock surfaced in Hong Kong auctions, sales that were denounced by China's State Bureau of Cultural Relics. "It's ridiculous that they brought them back to a part of China to be sold," says Tsang Kin-shing...
...ground-based telescopes can be only so sharp. The stars twinkle for the Lucky Camera too. But it snaps 20 images every second, and every so often one of those images, purely by chance, will be taken through a calm patch of sky--much as a broken clock is right twice...