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...Time, told of a major league baseball team whose polyglot members one by one lapsed into clinical depression. Although they kept winning, they doubted the value of victory when it failed to make them happy, and found themselves facing mid-life moral crises while still in the first flush of youth...
...basket of wet wash and gets him to help her hang it: "She held her hand out and Ralphie gave her the blue pajamas. She pinned them to the line and then moved them out, boldly, the pulleys on the far end of the line, on the telephone pole flush against the garage, squeaking loudly and comfortingly." Ralphie is calmed by the childhood ritual. He hands Dolores bedspreads, sheets and then his rifle...
...clubs sprout up, many are working to acquire their own venues. Although a Harvard Square flush with social space might be a thing of the past, the current efforts will at least afford more students (and finally some female students) with social space that the University has failed to provide...
...lively, centrally located space for students to gather and chow down after the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) finishes its party-busting. Where the Undergraduate Council (UC) had a hand in issues of social life, the results were decidedly mixed. The good: The UC’s party fund, flush with extra cash from the increased student activities fee, gave even more party hosts than before a boost of cash for their bashes. The student group grants process benefited similarly from the termbill fee, allowing the UC to fund student groups more substantially than it had in the past...
...logical extreme, duplicating--Dolly the sheep style--their best beef and dairy cattle. Working out of his Galesburg, Kans., ranch, Coover has sold more than 500 units of semen from five cloned bulls, each of them a near perfect genetic replica of a prize breeder known as Full Flush. Now their semen is impregnating cows across the U.S., spawning champion offspring that are, technically, half-clones. "This will revolutionize agricultural livestock," says Coover. "It's a lot easier to produce good meat if you have the right genetics...