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...opportunities, trading penalty corners near the end of regulation. A Harvard corner with four minutes to play resulted in a strong shot from co-captain Devon Shapiro, but Wray made the save. The Tigers were awarded a corner with mere seconds left in the game that they failed to convert, and the game remained scoreless at the end of regulation. However, Princeton dominated the 6-on-6 sudden-death overtime period, outshooting the Crimson, 4-0. The difference in the game, however, came on penalty corners. The Tigers were awarded four in the overtime period alone, including one that resulted...
...body, insulin helps convert food into cellular energy. But the brain has other uses for insulin, namely as a means to learn and make new memories. Here's how it works: At synapses, the spaces across which brain cells communicate and where memories are conceived, neurons reserve special parking spots just for insulin. When the hormone pulls in, a connection is made that enables new memories to form. Since new memory formation is one of the first things to go awry in people with early stages of the disease, this insulin-initiated process may hold the key to decoding...
...They sat in against us the whole time, and it was difficult to break them down,” senior co-captain Adam Hahn said. During the first overtime, the Crimson kept the ball on the Holy Cross’s end, but it could not convert attempts into goals. In the seventh minute of overtime, Akpan took a ground shot from the left but it went just wide. During the second overtime, Holy Cross gained control and had good movement, while Harvard played more on the defensive. One reason the Crimson wasn’t able to find...
...League students are about to convert their schools’ hallowed halls into barracks and bunkers and engage in open hostilities against one another—in cyberspace...
...crimes of the Franco regime, or the teams of volunteers who spend their weekends unearthing mass graves from the Civil War. It was only a matter of time before the Transition, the period of time when Spaniards implicitly agreed not to talk about the past in order to convert their government peacefully from dictatorship to democracy, came under scrutiny as well. And no figure played a greater role in the Transition than Juan Carlos himself...