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Sophomore point guard Elliot Prasse-Freeman shot 3-of-5 from three-point range while distributing the ball with fluidity and deception, often faking penetration and then using a no-look, behind the back flip to set up a teammate...
...this has reminded them that the incoming president is not invincible, and that his nominees can actually be picked off. But there's a flip side, and nobody knows how the bank shot will come off - Senate Democrats may now be more reluctant to pick off another nominee, which would be good news for Ashcroft. But it could be bad news, too, because all the Democratic staffers can now concentrate their fire on him. Gale Norton is a secondary target right now. Unless there's a smoking gun, she'll get through, after some roughing up. The same is probably...
...Today, the 3,141 counties in the United States use six different methods to record and tally votes: 40 percent use optical scan devices (think of No. 2 pencils and the SATs); 18 percent use punch cards (think Palm Beach and Votomatics); 15 percent use '50s-era lever machines (flip the switches and pull the lever); 12 percent use paper ballots (drop them in a box or mail them in); 9 percent use electronic touch-screens; 2 percent use Data Vote, which is punch-card voting without the Votomatics...
...doomed to be haunted by legitimacy doubts for the next four years. The race was so close that it was within the margin of error of any vote-counting method, leading Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen Jay Gould to suggest that the election should be decided by a simple flip of a coin...
...ultimately, addiction is a physical disease of the brain caused by exposure to drugs. It starts, many neuroscientists believe, when alcohol, cocaine, amphetamines or other drugs boost the activity of a brain chemical called dopamine, which generates the sensation of pleasure. Flip the pleasure switch often enough, and nerve cells in many parts of the brain--especially in a tiny region known as the nucleus accumbens--become accustomed to the rush. When the switch is left in the off position too long, nerve cells feel deprived, a sensation the addict experiences as a nearly irresistible craving...