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...seasons workouts or time-trials—the fully clothed swimmers accepted their trophies, waved to the departing crowd, and then collectively took a giant leap back into Blodgett Pool...
...field team—and especially senior Travis Hughes, who won the long jump with a leap of 6.76—carried the men to a third-place finish...
Meandering between the undeniable exclusivity of our Harvard experience and our necessary places in the outside world, we stand at this divide whether we like it or not. As we prepare to make the leap from one side of the gates to the other, the message left for us on one of those gates by a much older class of Harvard sharpens the difference between where we are and where we’re going: “Enter to Grow in Wisdom,” commands the entrance, and “Depart to Serve Better Thy Country...
Casting around for work that she could do at home, Scottoline decided to try her hand at writing--not such a leap, perhaps, for a University of Pennsylvania English major who had concentrated her studies on the American novel. She had even taken a course from Philip Roth. ("He was cold and distant," she recalls...
...Seoul National University, the center of operations for Woo Suk Hwang, the South Korean scientist who made headlines last week when he announced that his team, using Dolly-the-sheep techniques, had created 11 human stem-cell lines perfectly matched to the DNA of human patients--a giant leap beyond anything any other lab has achieved. The eggs hollowed out in Building No. 85 were fused with skin cells taken from nearly a dozen patients--ages 2 to 56, suffering from a variety of injuries and disorders--and grown with unprecedented efficiency into early embryos lined with stem cells...