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...intersession for an intensive four-day training session with Katherine T. “Cissie” Jones, who is renowned in the (admittedly small) American polo scene, and is also Crocker Snow’s fiancé. The Harvard Polo Club seems to have it all—intellect, romance and expensive training trips. Too bad you have to be brought up riding horses to be able to play...
...Francisco 49ers in their heyday. And just watch Manning as he approaches the line of scrimmage before each down, sizing up the defense and then calling or changing the play just before the ball is snapped. To some it seems showy and egotistical, but only a true football intellect could handle the pressure. "I've heard people say, 'Aw, that stuff he's doing, he's just talking, not doing anything,'" says NBC broadcaster and Hall of Fame coach John Madden. "Baloney...
History has not been kind to brain science. From the bogus discipline of phrenology--which claimed that the quality of the mind was reflected in the bumps on the skull--to the ultimately racist field of craniometry, which asserted that intellect could be determined merely by measuring the head, much early work on the brain was nonsense or worse. But today's powerful scanners now allow us to see inside the head as never before. Detailed maps of thousands of genes reveal the DNA blueprint that allows the brain to exist at all. More powerful psychoactive drugs let us understand...
...something. For aside from the cinnamon and schmaltz that infuse many carols, the great American Christmas songbook affords young people their most sustained exposure to the vocal skills of the early to mid 20th century. I speak of pitch, clarity, enunciation, the artfully natural wedding of lyric and melody, intellect and emotion - what used to be called singing. Ignore the lofty, dewy texts of these songs, if you want, and attend to the care the singers invest in the succession of notes, the chain of aural imagery. You might ask: Where has this been all my life...
...weightclass. “He’s a great wrestler, he works hard, and he’s a great student first and foremost.”As a concentrator in biochemical sciences and pre-med, Ogunwole approaches his studies with diligence and a fully-engaged intellect. As someone always mindful of the well-being of those around him, he aspires to a career in medicine.“I’ve always been around medicine as a kid, because my dad was a doctor,” Ogunwole said. “When I was really young...