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...junta has claimed that forces loyal to you were responsible for the New Year's Eve bombings in Bangkok. How do you respond? I absolutely deny any connection. [Those responsible] must be brought to justice. Pointing a finger at somebody else, without evidence and investigation, is not right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "I'm Calling It Quits" | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...holders, some place the ball on the ground with one finger, others with two or more. Koy Detmer, a quarterback by trade, holds his thumb and forefinger on the tip of the ball. "I pinch it like a nipple," says Detmer, who held for the Philadelphia Eagles from 2000 to 2005, and was brought back just for this year's playoffs after Eagles punter Dirk Johnson botched a late-season snap (with Detmer holding, Eagles kicker David Akers hit a 38-yard field goal with no time left to give the Eagles a 23-20 playoff victory over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Their Own in the Super Bowl | 1/31/2007 | See Source »

...fully capitalize upon height and interior presence to dominate smaller Ivy League big men in the paint.Cusworth worked all of last summer on bulking up, however, and his physical strengthening in combination with an increased aggressiveness down low has led to a breakout campaign. Despite suffering a jammed finger that still requires a splint, Cusworth has played all 16 games for the Crimson this year. On top of his other impressive statistics, he has also made an Ivy-best 129 trips to the free-throw line (no one else in the league has more than 85), 28 more than last...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Last Call for Cusworth | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

There has been plenty of finger-wagging lately over the quality of undergraduate instruction at Harvard: “The professors can’t teach!” we students claim, pointing to consonants on our transcripts and snoozing peers in lecture. We’ve got reason to complain: We’re here to learn, and in order for us to understand how to do something, someone needs to teach...

Author: By Emily R. Kaplan | Title: Speaking Genius | 1/22/2007 | See Source »

...feel that? Ramachandran asked. On his left cheek, Victor answered--and the back of his missing hand. Ramachandran stroked another spot on the cheek. Where do you feel that? On his absent thumb, Victor replied. Ramachandran touched the skin between Victor's nose and mouth. His missing index finger was being brushed, Victor said. A spot just below Victor's left nostril caused the boy to feel a tingling on his left pinkie. And when Victor felt an itch in his phantom hand, scratching his lower face relieved the itch. In people who have lost a limb, Ramachandran concluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: How The Brain Rewires Itself | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

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