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...Bowl XLIII, when one of my blockmates, in an attempt to show off his sports knowledge, said, “Oh man, Kurt Warner just got hit hard!” He then continued, a bit perplexed, “Hey, but why did the ref just drop his yellow napkin?” To this faux pas I immediately responded with a deep, guttural laugh. I was (this is the important part of the story) a sports god in comparison...
...1980s, says Dr. Nicholas Vogelzang, chair and medical director of developmental therapeutics at US Oncology, a cancer-services company. Better biopsy techniques and drug treatments emerged, making castration and use of estrogens, the most common therapies for prostate tumors, almost obsolete. Such advances may have contributed to the drop off in suicides seen in the post-PSA era. "There may be an element here of the treatment for prostate cancer that was causing excess suicide," says Vogelzang...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences has reduced its deficit to $80 million, signifying a drop that FAS Dean Michael D. Smith credited at yesterday’s Faculty meeting to alumni donations, improvements in the international financial market, and last year’s cost-cutting measures...
...class, as are the skiers and boarders who congregate from all parts of the globe to test themselves on the steepest skiable pitches and the finest snow to be found anywhere. It doesn't matter where you may have skied or boarded before - the Chugach will make your jaw drop. As Doug Coombs famously said, "Everything else is just practice...
...When you drop [the pen] vertically, the whole pen is the mass that comes to a dead stop,” he said. “When you drop it on a 45 degree angle, the collision is much less noisy, because part of the pen’s translational energy is converted to rotational energy...