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...sports, it is often difficult to measure progress, especially when numbers fail to provide much insight. For the Harvard baseball team, which went 10-30 last year with an 8-12 Ivy League record, this season did not present much of a contrast statistically, but consistent observers of the Crimson would likely attest to the team’s improvement.Harvard finished its 2009 campaign at 13-28, going 10-10 in conference play, in large part due to an injury-ravaged pitching staff that forced the Crimson to rely heavily on untested freshmen and sophomores. But Harvard also took steps...
Limbaugh, Rush •desire of for Sotomayor to - yep, you guessed it - FAIL...
...nonsense coach he is. Consider, for example, Step 5, which posits that many ideas fail to amount to much in the end because their creators don't bother to do any research on who else has already tried something similar and then what roadblocks they ran into. Ignoring the work of others, Sindell says, is a form of laziness hidden behind "the metaphor trap of 'not reinventing the wheel.' In reality, the wheel gets reinvented all the time because we need an almost infinite variety of wheels. The gear was a reinvention of the wheel, as was the pneumatic tire...
Studies have linked obesity and rapid weight gain during pregnancy to a higher risk of gestational diabetes and hypertension in the mother. And because most women fail to shed all their pregnancy fat, the additional weight can lead to an increased risk of postpartum obesity, along with elevated risks of heart disease and stroke. Babies delivered by obese women tend to be born bigger, earlier and by Cesarean section. And many studies suggest that a mother's gestational obesity predicts later weight problems in her offspring. One recent study conducted by researchers at Harvard Medical School found that among nearly...
...report does not predict that the GPS system will fail outright; it offers a more mild (and vague) warning, suggesting only that a delay in replacing satellites may impede "the level of GPS service that the U.S. government commits to." But given the world's growing dependence on the space-age compasses, the military scrambled to quell any concerns. "The issue is under control. We are working hard to get out the word," Air Force Col. Dave Buckman wrote to worried questioners on a military Twitter account May 20. "GPS isn't falling...