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...With two close matches still in progress, Harvard needed to take at least one to earn victory. Clayton and Ermakov did not shift focus as quickly as their teammates and, after dropping their opening sets at first and third singles, these upperclassmen knew they needed a maximum length match to get the win. Kumar had complete confidence in his teammates. “Chris is a warrior,” Kumar said. “Even when he has lost the first set, he’s the one guy who I still believe will come back and win under...
...Upon the elapse of some decent, manageable labor, she pushes out her baby with honest grunts. While that may be true for some, for most women natural childbirth is one of the most violent physical traumas they will ever experience, bar a serious accident or grievous assault. The average length of labor for a first-time mother is anything from seven to 12 hours, but it can easily be 20 hours or more. During that time, she is wracked by contractions - a euphemism that doesn't even come close to conveying the violent spasms that take hold when the body...
...particles all the way from the sun to Earth, and in so doing helped map the planet's magnetic fields. The big surprise came when Ulysses stumbled on the tails of two comets and found that those feathery streams were more than 93 million miles (150 million km) in length. That's about the distance from the sun to Earth. "Totally unexpected," JPL project scientist Ed Smith says simply...
...Geschwindner, 62, has found a way to turn the laws of physics to his advantage. A former captain of the German national team and a physicist, he has developed a series of formulas that may reveal the optimum arc for jump shots, using a combination of player height, arm length and release point. "Take differential and integral calculus. Make some derivations and create a curve," he recently said. "Everybody...
...take until August to be finalized. “You must finish this contract,” said Walser, who served on the committee from 2000 to 2007. “It’s nearly April. A fourth of the year has gone by.” The length and nature of Thomas Fowler-Finn’s contract has been at the center of back-and-forth negotiations after he narrowly won a contract extension by a 4-3 school committee vote in January. The committee continued these negotiations in a private executive session after last night?...