Word: ens
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...become part of the cerebral cortex. Because they arise relatively late in the development of the mammalian brain, billions of these cells must push and shove their way through dense colonies established by earlier migrants. "It's as if the entire population of the East Coast decided to move en masse to the West Coast," marvels Yale University neuroscientist Dr. Pasko Rakic, and marched through Cleveland, Chicago and Denver to get there...
...ORLEANS: Will the non-retired coach please sit down? Among the NFL coaching legends presiding over the pre-game coin toss stood Mike Ditka. Stately. Dignified. But not done yet. A subtle undercurrent to all the pomp and cheese-en-stance that was Super Bowl XXXI was the story of a career revived. And it wasn't aging funkmaster James Brown's. Ditka confirmed Monday that he will return to the sidelines next season as head coach of the New Orleans Saints. The perennially woeful Saints obviously hope they have landed the Coach Ditka of old, the Ditka...
Last year, the Harvard women's basketball team struggled to a mediocre 6-5 record during its preseason games before turning its season around with an inspired 92-70 victory over Dartmouth. Harvard went on to win all but one of its next 13 games versus Ivy League rivals en route to capturing the league title...
...returned from West Point bemused. Unable to reach a consensus on the proper role of the U.N. in world affairs, our group had left the issue out of our final policy paper. The German Fulbright scholar, whom I sat next to on the train back to New York City en route to Cambridge, told me the conference had confirmed all his ugly stereotypes about Americans...
Things are going so well for Delta and Continental airlines, No. 3 and No. 5 in the industry, respectively, that they are talking about merging to become No. 1. Then, presumably, they could really kick some tails. An acquisition of Continental, twice bankrupt and now en route to record earnings, by once struggling Delta would create a giant with more than $18 billion in revenues. But the consolidation could reduce competition. "I see the Justice Department digging in their heels and not allowing this acquisition to go through," says Michael Bradley, a finance professor at the Fuqua School of Business...