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...work from the outside in,” Cusworth says. “I would start off the game [and] if I’d see an open shot I’d take it instead of working from the inside out and really just trying to establish dominance close to the rim. “One of the biggest things that I’ve been working on over the summer playing pickup and in practice is trying to do the early work, get good position and get my field goal percentage to the high 50?...
...information technologies. Monterrey has more than 30 colleges, with some 150,000 students enriching the mix, but it's not Boston yet. Still, when Michigan-headquartered Whirlpool, which in recent years has been pumping in an additional $100 million a year to its expanding production facilities here, decided to establish an R&D center in Monterrey recently, it found it could easily source almost all the engineers it needed locally...
Public understanding of autism research suffers from two perennial complications: correlational studies and press releases. The report cited in your story is the latest example of both these foibles. The correlational style of argument is as apt to establish that, say, ice-cream sales cause homicides, since both peak at the same time of year. The long list of supposed causes of autism touted in the press has given parents false hope or, worse, false guilt, while damaging autism science and the public's trust...
What's more, O'Brien has done some island hopping. Digicel boasts 3 million subscribers in 22 countries throughout the Caribbean, Latin America and the South Pacific, as well as more than $600 million in revenues for the last fiscal year. In early 2007, he plans to establish Digicel in at least three new countries, including the one that might be overly ambitious, even for O'Brien: the U.S. and its $100 billion cell-phone market. O'Brien says he sees an underserved population, noting stats from the International Telecommunications Union that show only about 68 phones for every...
...with the game. “We wanted to set a tone for the rest of the season that nobody’s going to come into our home gym and control the tempo of the game,” Cusworth said. “We really wanted to establish homecourt dominance.”“We have to reestablish a level of play right now from the beginning of the year on the homecourt, which is what we did in the non-league [schedule] last year but didn’t do in the Ivy League...