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...HARVARD 5In a slugfest that featured a combined 20 hits and 14 walks, a pitching breakdown in the sixth gave Brown an easy victory in what had been a neck-and-neck contest.After junior Margaux Black recorded two quick outs, Bears pinch hitter Danielle Commissiong drove a double to deep center field, the first of seven straight Brown players to reach base safely. Black would give up three straight singles, one that drove home Commissiong, before yielding to co-captain and starting shortstop Bailey Vertovez.With little time to warm up, Vertovez walked a run home before allowing...
...impact on the torture victim's mind was lasting. After Pinochet's fall in 1990, the new civilian government in Chile investigated incidents of alleged torture, and found deep scars. Years after they were tortured, submarino victims were still haunted. A 2007 study in the International Review of the Red Cross found that "the acute suffering produced during the immediate infliction of the submarino is superseded by the often unbearable fear of repeating the experience. In the aftermath, it may lead to horrific memories that persist in the form of recurrent 'drowning nightmares.'" As one Chilean who was tortured...
What Causes Jet Lag? In a study in the current issue of Biology, researchers report that they've figured out the cause of jet lag: a desynchronization of the internal clocks of two groups of neurons deep in the brain. One group is associated with deep sleep, which results from fatigue; the other is linked with rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep. Although the first group of neurons can be reset in a few days, the latter can take up to a week to catch up - so, one part of the brain thinks its in Paris, while the other insists...
...iron grip of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on April 20. But more fighting is in store before that end can be reached. It will take weeks, if not longer, to capture or kill the over 500 hardcore Tigers - including leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, who is holed up deep inside the zone - ready to fight to the death. (Read a 2-minute biography on Tamil Tiger Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran...
...Mikucki and her group began sampling water that runs from deep within the glacier - which warms just enough in the Antarctic summer that it melts. Freed up after 1,500 millennia of absolute blackness and utter cold, the water at first seemed completely sterile. "When I started running chemical analysis on it," says Mikucki, "there was no oxygen...