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...Then, 3 hours 21 minutes into the telethon, Jack Nicholson announced the winner for Best Picture-which had at first been thought to be a lock, then a tight squeeze, for Brokeback. ?And the Oscar goes to... Crash.? Those famous eyebrows editorialized surprise, and Nicholson mouthed a ?Whoa.? Paul Haggis, the film?s writer-producer-director, geysered from his seat in joyous shock, and revelry exploded among what seemed like half of the 5,000 audience members at the Kodak Theater. One of the revelers did such ecstatic contortions, she nearly fell out of her gown. The rest hugged...
...messenger, but with adventurous quests and economic activity thrown in for good measure. “While we’re playing, we’ll just, like, chat,” she says.MMORPGs have been known in some cases to take over gamers’ lives, keeping them locked in their rooms for hours on end. But “the fear of not getting something done or not doing well” forces Abaraoha to put her schoolwork first.She’s not alone in doing so. Turner, who is taking five classes this semester, left...
...such strategy—which Harvard’s financial planners have now put on the table—would be to sign long-term contracts that lock the University into a set rate for energy purchases...
...brain—which leads to disease. However, according to Lindquist, once scientists identify the characteristics of healthy prions, it may be possible to prevent them from becoming abnormal. “Maybe if we knew the biological function of the [healthy] prions, we could lock them into the normal protein structure,” she said. Lindquist, along with colleagues at the Harvard Medical School, found that in embryonic brain cells where healthy prion concentration was high, there was an increase in the proliferation of the brain cells. Researchers tested the levels of healthy prions?...
...teams in the league’s bottom quartet. Furthermore, once four teams are eliminated this weekend, the seeds will all be reshuffled—and since the top four teams’ seeds don’t change due to their inactivity, they are a lock to host their quarterfinal series a week from now. That is especially good news for a Crimson squad that is 9-2-1 at home this season and 23-3-1 in the last two years. With Harvard resting at home, next weekend’s best-of-three first rounds consist...