Word: exception
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With its first third of the season concluded--the Crimson will not play another regular-season game until January 6--Harvard is the third-ranked team in the nation, and is likely to be number two when polls come out today. Except for B.C. and UNH, the Crimson's competition has not given it a decent test...
News travels swiftly through one insect colony: delicious crystals have been found in a distant country. Eager to please its queen, a group sets out in search of edible treasure. When the sugar is found, each takes one grain and heads back -- except for Two Bad Ants (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95). Their mishaps with a spoon, a toaster, a cup of coffee and a human mouth are the subjects of Chris Van Allsburg's tale, brilliantly illuminated with renderings of a world seen from the underside, as two tiny protagonists scamper through its wonders and terrors on all sixes...
...value of raising HDL, and no clinical trial to date has specifically targeted humans with low HDL. "Much the same question existed for LDL until this decade, when it was unequivocally shown that lowering LDL decreases the risk," says Levy. The situation is similar with HDL today, he says, "except that with HDL we have not been smart enough yet to set up clinical trials designed to test whether raising HDL alone will be beneficial...
...office bottle and a solitary game of chess. What made Marlowe special was simply the fact that he was nothing special, no genius like Sherlock Holmes, no Connoisseur model like James Bond. Just an underpaid drudge with, as one mobster says, "no dough, no family, no prospects, no nothing" -- except a habit of making other people's worries his own, and a gift for walking in on corpses he knows just well enough to mourn...
...delightful distress with his new-found rank is capably contrasted by Pooh-Bah's ridiculous revelling in his. "Born sneering," Bamberger struts, nose in the air, squeamishly shrinking from the touch of commoners ("Lower than the rank of stockbroker"), except when money is in the commoner's hand. He repeatedly reminds the audience of his nobility, tracing his lineage back to his "protoplasmic ancestor...