Word: friar
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...productive faces on the Crimson would be remiss if it did not mention freshman midfielder Tamara Sobek-Rosnick, who tallied her second goal of the year after coming off the bench for a penalty shot. As she did against UMass, Sobek-Rosnick flashed a brilliantly deadly stroke, beating Friar netminder Meredith Jones top-shelf into the goal...
...wall, San Diego's Petco Park is also kid friendly. Trolley rides to the waterfront park and the old brick warehouse in left field are among Petco's other charms. The downside: the San Diego Chicken, the team's beloved mascot, isn't coming out of retirement. The Padres Friar will have to do. --By Sean Gregory
...Florentine artist filippino Lippi was the product of a scandalous 15th century love affair: his father, Filippo, an artist and Carmelite friar, was chaplain of Santa Margarita convent in Prato when he ran off with a beautiful nun named Lucrezia Buti. Their illegitimate son, coached by a Florentine painter, became one of the most famous artists of his age, known for the imagination and versatility of his work and patronized by the rich and powerful. The twist in the tale came four centuries later: Filippino's fame had long since faded when England's Pre-Raphaelites "discovered" the genius...
...logical to conclude that sex, like other aerobic workouts, can protect against heart disease, but studies in support of this link have yet to be done. "Can we make the claim that having sex is equal to walking a mile or bicycling? We don't know," says Robert Friar, a biologist at Michigan's Ferris State University. "The data don't really exist...
With 7:42 remaining in the game and the teams deadlocked at one goal apiece, the captain sailed a slap-shot past Friar goalie Jana Bugden to lift No. 3 Harvard (8-0-0, 2-0-0 ECAC) to a 2-1 victory at Bright Hockey Center...