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...defense,” co-captain Claire Wheeler said. They shot too many threes against us, especially in the second half. [NJIT’s Jessica Gerald] had six threes against us, and we definitely need to do a better job of adjusting defensively to who has the hot hand. We’re definitely not going to get away with that against Dartmouth...
...could trigger some fireworks in part because of the severe damage caused by the financial-industry meltdown. What's more, the commission's chair Phil Angelides, a Democrat and former California state treasurer, has already come out swinging against Wall Street, calling the bonuses financial firms are planning to hand out soon for last year "unjustifiably wrong." So it's no real surprise that the first ones to be in the hot seat are the bankers themselves. (See pictures of Americans in their homes...
...handful of theorists already had a better explanation at hand. The giant planets could have formed in a much more sensible location, like Jupiter did, and then migrated inward, establishing a stable orbit there. It all made sense, except for one tiny problem: this same model also suggested that a little world like Earth shouldn't exist at all; it (or more precisely, the moon-size proto-planets that eventually assembled into Earth) should have spiraled into the sun more than 4 billion years ago. A star might not gobble a Jupiter whole when it moves close enough...
While Harvard launched 31 shots at Quinnipiac goalie Victoria Vigilanti, none of them reached the back of the net. The Bobcats, on the other hand, made the most of their limited chances, converting one of their nine shots into the only goal of the game...
...Gioconda" suffered from xanthelasma, the accumulation of cholesterol just under the skin. Franco told the newspaper La Stampa this week that he spotted clear signs of the condition around Mona Lisa's left eye as well as evidence of a lipoma, a fatty-tissue tumor, on her right hand. Hardly a flattering diagnosis for one of history's most enchanting beauties...