Word: glue
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's biggest strength may lie in its formidable midfield, the glue to this talented offense. Stauffer rejoins the team after a trying year in which she took a semester off to spend time with her ailing brother, who lost a two-and-a-half year battle with leukemia in January...
...season long, the Crimson thrived on the efforts of its seniors. Harvard baseball's class of 1998 was numerically small--four position players and two pitchers--but their playoff experience and their uniformly special years were the glue that kept the Crimson going...
...think they can improve on Folkman's techniques. They prefer a more targeted approach: selectively attacking the various molecules and biochemical signals involved in building a new blood vessel. For instance, researchers at Ixsys, a biotech company in San Diego, have developed an artificial antibody that dissolves the biochemical glue that holds a tumor's capillaries together. Indeed, one of the patients in their safety study exceeded all expectations when two of the tumors in his abdomen shrank 70%. "I've been on the drug now for over a year," says Barry Riccio, a college professor from Illinois...
...spite of the Keds, Tomei remains steady andreliable throughout the play--she's the glue thatholds the show together. Her timing in perfect,and her sense of pace is dead-on. Herinterpretation of blindness is convincing enough,and it's impressive how well she can find her wayaround Michael McGarty's superbly cluttered set inthe dark. But that blank stare and high-pitchedvoice (along with the Annette Funicello wardrobe)often suggest a shrill bimbette, not a savvyheroine defending her domicile against invaders...
...note that video game playing is an occasional bonding experience. James R. Blake '01 recalls a day when "All six of us were here [playing]. We all had papers or problem sets due the next day, and we still stayed up until 3 a.m. playing." What was the magical glue that could hold a group of six together for an entire day? Stackich responds with the cry, "`Resident Evil II' is the hottest game...