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...Throw out the script. The Boston team that seemed left for dead in July rallied in October to write a whole new heroic tale. And Sox fans everywhere can safely bid farewell to a painful history that had come to be known as a truth foretold. After lashing the Yankees in four straight games, the Red Sox went on to slaughter the Cardinals in a four game sweep. Boston?s height of glory came when they vanquished their archrival at Yankee Stadium on October 20. The Cardinals were an after dinner mint of sorts - and even the Sox didn...
...numbers alone foretold it. Heading into Saturday’s game, Dawson was averaging 134 rushing yards per game and 151.4 all-purpose yards per game, not to mention averaging 2.2 touchdowns per game and leading all of Division I-AA in scoring with 14.4 points per game...
...alas, those who foretold an ECAC in which those carmine cousins nosed one another for the title each year—the same way Michigan and Michigan State have engaged in a two-way struggle for CCHA hegemony for most of the last two decades—are now sitting down to a happy helping of crow...
Already the fires of October are being called one of the worst natural disasters in California history. And yet, despite their ferocity, the infernos that enveloped more than 750,000 acres, killed 20 people and destroyed nearly 3,000 houses were in many ways disasters foretold, the tragic but predictable consequences of the push of people and dwellings into forests and brushlands designed by nature to burn...
...between heredity and environment. The most striking example is Pavlovian conditioning. When Pavlov announced his famous experiment a century ago this year, he had apparently discovered how the brain could be changed to acquire new knowledge of the world--in the case of his dogs, knowledge that a bell foretold the arrival of food. But now we know how the brain changes: by the real-time expression of 17 genes, known as the CREB genes. They must be switched on and off to alter connections among nerve cells in the brain and thus lay down a new long-term memory...