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...this weekend went by without incident. Duluth pounded the Gophers 7-1 on Friday night, but Minnesota bounced back to defeat the Bulldogs 4-2 on Saturday. Because Minnesota-Duluth swept the first two meetings, it is still in control in the WCHA title race...
After Friday night’s games, when Harvard tied St. Lawrence and the Bulldogs won convincingly, the Crimson lost its top spot in the USCHO.com Pairwise Rankings, which are the best available indicator of the NCAA selection process. But Duluth’s defeat on Saturday combined with the Crimson’s victory put Harvard back...
...defeat was humiliating--"the biggest mistake," Bragg would one day say, "of my scientific career"--and Crick and Watson knew it could easily happen again. Pauling surely understood that the structure of DNA was the next big challenge, and once he turned his powerful brain to the problem, he would certainly crack it. "Within a few days of my arrival," writes Watson, "we knew what to do: imitate Linus Pauling and beat him at his own game." To do so, they would need X rays of DNA, but they would have to look outside Cambridge. The Cavendish's crystallographers were...
...Watson and Crick, but she lacked the advantage of a sympathetic collaborator, and she simply wasn't the prizewinning type. She was a bloodhound, cautious and implacable, whereas Crick and Watson were greyhounds who lived for the sprint. When they made their triumphant announcement, Franklin was gracious in defeat, accepting her peripheral role with an equanimity that surprised her colleagues. When she encountered Watson and Crick later in life, they met as friends. She probably never knew what a central part her X rays had played in their discovery...
...Crimson has had Barrie’s number as of late, however. She is winless in her last three Harvard meetings—a 7-1 thrashing in 2001, a 5-3 defeat and a 2-2 tie in 2002. The tie was particularly devastating—Barrie surrendered the game-tying goal to now-sophomore Nicole Corriero with eight seconds left in regulation...