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...results of the matches themselves were of little consequence. Harvard was heavily favored against each of its opponents. The Crimson is currently one of the few Eastern powers in what is predominantly a West Coast sport. By contrast, none of this weekend's opponents came close to being ranked in the latest National Collegiate Women's Water Polo Poll...
...double-contrast barium enema, a technician coats the inside of the intestine with the metallic dye and pumps the colon full of air. Then an X ray of the large intestine is taken, allowing doctors to visualize the outline of most abnormal growths. Provided the colon is clear, a barium enema should be repeated every five to 10 years. Cost...
Marbury Madison--the ears-akimbo German shepherd-Rhodesian Ridgeback mix who came from the pound--looks, frankly, like a neurotic mess. He glances cringingly at a stranger and slinks away behind the 26-month-old twins. By contrast, the twins, Christopher and Siena, toddle toward a downstairs playroom with the focused, menacing energy of a tornado aimed at an Alabama trailer camp. It is left to the lovely Alice, a tortoiseshell cat, to perform ceremonies of greeting and accept a scratch behind the ears...
...believe the state has a role to play in guiding markets. Exhibit A is the GSM (global system for mobile communications) standard introduced in the European Union in 1991. Thanks to GSM, a subscriber in Portugal can use her phone from Ireland to Hong Kong. The U.S., in contrast, still allows various incompatible standards to compete like trains running on tracks with different gauges. As a result, a New Yorker cannot use his cell phone in London and, depending on his carrier and his instrument, sometimes not even in St. Louis...
...scientists from the Yale School of Medicine, temperature has its own flavors. Writing in the current issue of Nature, they report that warming the front of the tongue induces a suggestion of sweetness, and cooling it produces a salty or sour taste; chilling the back of the tongue, by contrast, creates a sour or bitter sensation. No one knows if these false taste sensations affect flavor, but experts suspect they are too faint for the brain to discern in the sensory din of a mouthful of well-seasoned food...