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...grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...
...Crimson appeared on its way to a 35th title as the two lead boats glided past the midway marker. With its base cadence measuring between 35 and 36 strokes per minute, Harvard’s first varsity had erased a small deficit incurred off the start by the 500-meter mark and appeared to have solidly positioned itself to fend off the inevitable late Midshipmen charge...
...turn red as immune cells flood in to attack the microbes. Fat, when it builds up in plaques inside heart vessels, can launch the same type of alert, causing the plaques to rupture and lead to a heart attack. Ridker exploited this response by measuring inflammation with a specific marker of the process, C-reactive protein (CRP). CRP is easily picked up in the blood and reliably indicates how much inflammation is occurring in the heart--and thus how likely a heart attack might...
Securing a lead of nearly one length by the 500 meter marker, the Radcliffe first novice eight (6:53.1) held on to claim its first win of the year, besting Dartmouth (6:56.7) by better than three and a half seconds...
Another testimony to the fizz still in this debate is that it remains a good marker in the culture wars. Political scientist John Green of Ohio's Akron University notes that the sense of sin integral to substitution theory informs the religious right's politics of individual morality. Indeed, substitution's top-down nature reaffirms conservatives' scorn of any rights that they feel lack God's biblical imprimatur. "The substitutionary understanding is humbling," says Mohler. "It has the Father in the position of satisfying his righteous demands of us through Christ's atonement. We don't have the authority...