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Late Sunday morning, early in my rainy drive back to Harvard from a weekend with my family in New Jersey, I saw the New York skyline smudged gray against the charcoal sky. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were, of course, not there. And, at first, their absence didn’t register...
...nothing at all like my first trip on the New Jersey Turnpike after Sept. 11, 2001 when the gaping hole at the tip of Manhattan Island caused me to involuntarily gasp for air. No, last weekend, my first thought of the World Trade Center was when I realized in western Connecticut that I hadn’t thought about its towers at all while looking across the Hudson at Manhattan. I felt guilty, of course. (All the way to Hartford, in fact, when hunger took over.) On closer reflection, however, I’m not really sure whether I should...
...classic 1978 sci-fi movie Coma. They are capable of smiling, crying and turning toward a voice. "There are many, many behaviors that look like conscious behavior that are reflexive or automatic," says Joseph Giacino, associate director of neuropsychology at the JFK Medical Center and the New Jersey Neuro-science Institute in Edison, N.J. After looking at the videos of Terri Schiavo for TIME, Giacino said, "This is not compelling evidence. It's interesting and suggestive. But most of these responses could occur in a vegetative state...
...don’t know much about defensive schemes, but I do know this. Whenever things seemed about to get out of hand, one of those two guys would come out of nowhere, throw a white jersey to the ground, and keep Princeton from ever really thinking it was in control...
...fourth quarter of last season’s face-off in New Jersey, then-junior quarterback David Splithoff went down to a shoulder injury on a brutal hit, which has prevented him from returning as signal caller since. Splithoff, with skills not unlike those of hurt Crimson quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, was capable of scrambling out of the pocket for long gains behind unaware defenses and decreasing his reliability on finding an open receiver...