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...clear advantage over the Big Red, which comes in the form of senior running back Clifton Dawson, who leads the league in every major rushing category.Cornell’s star running back, Luke Siwula, is having an impressive season of his own, but it pales in comparison to Dawson’s record-breaking numbers.“You can’t stop Clifton Dawson. He’s a great back,” Knowles said. “You only hope to contain him and try to prevent the big play.”Despite...
REMEMBER WHEN RAY Nagin, mayor of New Orleans, was blasted for calling Ground Zero in Manhattan a "hole in the ground"? Well, let's see how people react to this fine comparison in the Daily Pennsylvanian by Penn's new top facilities manager (formerly design director for the Ground Zero memorial): For Penn's new top Facilities official, rebuilding lower Manhattan after Sept. 11 has been good preparation for rebuilding University City...
...another attack on the scale of Sept. 11, but continue to take lives. Americans can find plenty to criticize in the way Europeans have awakened slowly to the threat posed by Islamic radicalism, and Bush is right to emphasize that the fight against it will be long. But by comparison with the cold war, this time a U.S. President hasn't managed to sell Europe on his basic strategy for winning a generational struggle. "Even though we agree that Islamic radicalism is a common threat," says a British official, "most of the world thinks the U.S. is making it worse...
Still, the principle of gene-by-gene comparison remainsa powerful one, and just a year ago geneticists got hold of a long-awaited tool for making those comparisons in bulk. Although the news was largely overshadowed by the impact of Hurricane Katrina, which hit the same week, the publication of a rough draft of the chimp genome in the journal Nature immediately told scientists several important things. First, they learned that overall, the sequences of base pairs that make up both species' genomes differ by 1.23%--a ringing confirmation of the 1970s estimates--and that the most striking divergence...
...fact, even the most ardent proponents of genome-comparison research acknowledge that pretty much everything we know so far is preliminary. "We're interested in traits that really distance us from other organisms," says Wisconsin's Carroll, "such as susceptibility to diseases, big brains, speech, walking upright, opposable thumbs. Based on the biology of other organisms, we have to believe that those are very complex traits. The development of form, the increase in brain size, took place over a long period of time, maybe 50,000 generations. It's a pretty complicated genetic recipe...