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...diligence. The team practices up to two-and-a-half hours a day, six days a week, every week of the academic year—with only one week’s vacation. Members are only allowed three absences each semester; when they come late, they are penalized with extra workouts or fundraising tasks...
...game when they put in lights and started playing at night? Or when they expanded the major leagues from 16 teams to 26? Or the schedule from 154 games to 162? (Did Roger Maris break Babe Ruth's record of 60 home runs by hitting 61--but in eight extra games?) Babe Ruth--bah! Some truly venerable curmudgeons share Ring Lardner's view that they really ruined the game when they introduced the jackrabbit ball during the Babe's heyday to make home runs easier...
Their strategy worked beautifully. The growth-hormone gene was incorporated into the DNA of about a third of the mouse pups and, most important, was activated in a variety of tissues. These offspring, spurred on by the extra portion of growth hormone, ballooned to twice the size of normal mice. What is more, because the new gene was present in all their cells, including their sex cells, it was passed along to the next generation. Says Brinster: "We're now doing work on the seventh generation of Supermouse...
...four starts, he has allowed only three extra-base hits and has given up one earned run or fewer three times—all Crimson wins...
Nevertheless, students must realize that however real the intellectual Harvard bubble may seem, we live in a city where crime is an unfortunate reality. Despite the extra layer of security that blue light phones provide for those walking back to the Quad at night, students must take other precautions, including staying on the designated safe path, utilizing Harvard University Campus Escort Program, or merely walking in a group. Ultimately, one cannot rely on others for security—one must protect oneself...