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Though he’d be expected to pace himself with such an overwhelming task ahead of him, Wollner surged into the lead in lap nine, then held on to touch the wall 24 laps later more than five seconds ahead of second-place finisher junior Billy Gray...
After Harvard had dominated many of the longer running events, it took an early lead and managed to best the Northeastern relay team by almost a full lap of the 200-meter track to complete the long distance domination and secure its first win of the season...
Taking work home from the office may crimp your lifestyle in more ways than one. Researchers at the State University of New York at Stony Brook say the heat from a laptop computer--when used on the lap--can disrupt sperm production and affect fertility. Scientists found that scrotal temperatures in 29 men rose more than 4°F after an hour of laptop-computer use. Increases of more than 1.8°F have been associated with reduced fertility in previous research. Talk about an occupational hazard...
Menendez leads Isabel to a shelf of children’s books in the living room, picking up one of her childhood favorites, How to Behave and Why by Munro Leaf. Sitting on the wood floor, with Augustine on her lap, she begins to read in a clear, confident voice: “This is a book about how to behave, and it doesn’t matter whether you are a boy or a girl, a man or a woman—the rules are all the same...
...collegiate rivalries were played out on the runway,” Gadfly continued, “we’d be the model that trips on her heels and falls into Joan Rivers’s lap. If this had been Ec 10 lecture in Sanders Theatre, we’d be the cocky first-year bitch-slapped by Marty Feldstein’s invisible hand. Hell, if we were in post-Saddam Iraq, we’d be the United States...