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There are lots of contenders for the worst part of the Detroit Lions' miserable 2008 NFL season, starting with the jokes. How do you keep a Detroit Lion out of your backyard? Put up goalposts. There are the utter on-field embarrassments: a 47-10 nationally televised loss to the Tennessee Titans on Thanksgiving, and last week's 42-7 home defeat at the hands of New Orleans, in which on one play, Saints receiver Devery Henderson caught a pass with no Lions defender in sight, then scampered across the field for another 23 yards while cowardly Lions tried like...
...Asked about what the loss of Holdren would mean for the Kennedy School, Lee said that when a faculty member is named the chief science adviser in the United States, it is hard to see it as a loss...
...disease holds that the uncontrolled movements that are the hallmark of Parkinson's are only the latest and most advanced sign of the disease, the final stage of a 10- or 20-year gradual decline in nerve function. In fact, experts believe that the condition actually begins with a loss of smell and a degeneration of nerves in the olfactory tract, then proceeds to the gut and brain stem. At some point along this march, the nerve damage hits the pons, a region in the brain that regulates sleep. "So in Parkinson's, there is a period that...
Still, most of us will feel less happy in the next few months than we did, say, a year or two ago. That, though, has more to do with control and less to do with actual wealth. "The loss of wealth is upsetting, but it's not just the losing money that gets you down," says Dan Ariely, a professor at the Sloan School of Management at MIT and the author of Predictably Irrational. "Not being able to understand what is going on is a main driver of unhappiness as well...
...Harvard women’s basketball team ended the Women of Troy Basketball Classic hosted by the University of Southern California with two losses. The two losses, though, could not have been more different. Friday night the Crimson (7-6) went down 54-49 to a Siena team that it had beaten by 23 points just three weeks ago. Co-captain Emily Tay, a Los Angeles native, led Harvard with 12 points and was the only Crimson player to reach double-digits. “We could not have played worse against Siena,” coach Kathy Delaney-Smith...