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...righthander baffled the Lions with a seemingly effortless complete-game three-hitter, facing just three over the minimum and striking out five...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Baseball 3-1 on Opening Weekend | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...America, family and friends mourned for someone they would never see again. Today, the grandchild of that immigrant can return again and again across a vast ocean in just half a turn of the clock. But the airplane also helped tear families apart, by making international warfare an effortless reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviators: THE WRIGHT BROTHERS | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...that even the most efficient gatherer gal doesn't need a little help now and then, especially when she's lactating. Nursing a baby may look pretty effortless, but it can burn up 500 calories a day--the equivalent of running about five miles. Where was the help coming from? Was the female completely dependent on her male significant other, as the prevailing theory has always implied? An alternative possibility lay buried in the mystery of menopause. Nature is no friend of the infertile, and in most primates, the end of childbearing coincides with the end of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Truth About The Female Body | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

Everyone here seems to run around an awful lot but you don't really wave. That simple upward flip of the hand just doesn't cut it. Do you think tail wagging is effortless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTBOARD | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

Harvard made this victory appear effortless despite missing several of its top performers due to flu and injury...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. Swimming Still Undefeated | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

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