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Wente and junior guard Ahmed El-Nokali ignited a pair of 7-0 runs late in the second half that pulled the Tigers to within two points at 60-58. Following a lay-in from sophomore guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman and a fortuitous bounce on a Clemente three-pointer, Harvard led by five points with 2:38 left to play...
Again, Princeton responded with a quick 6-0 run fueled by freshman guard Andre Logan and senior center Nate Walton. Walton, who finished with 16 points on the night, hit a running lay-up with 22.2 seconds left to put Princeton...
...Around 1990, Potrykus hooked up with Gary Toenniessen, director of food security for the Rockefeller Foundation. Toenniessen had identified the lack of beta-carotene in polished rice grains as an appropriate target for gene scientists like Potrykus to tackle because it lay beyond the ability of traditional plant breeding to address. For while rice, like other green plants, contains light-trapping beta-carotene in its external tissues, it does not produce beta-carotene in its endosperm (the starchy interior part of the rice grain that most people...
...Beyond the court's remit lay the biggest questions, the ones that have not been subjected to the rigorous scrutiny of any judge, Scottish or otherwise, and may never be. Who besides al-Megrahi decided the plane should come down? Was Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader and guardian of his country's perpetual revolution, the man who gave the nod? Might al-Megrahi and others have been set on their murderous task by others, such as the Iranians or a Palestinian terrorist group with close ties to Syria and Iran? What role if any did the realpolitik of the West...
...used the insurance money to build this house, so she would have one thing of value to leave her children. As the walls went up, she fell sick. Tsepho had to nurse her, bathe her, attend to her bodily functions, try to feed her. Her one fear as she lay dying was that her rural relatives would try to steal the house. She wrote a letter bequeathing it to her sons and bade Tsepho hide...