Word: mcgill
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Harvard's heavyweight team was pleased with its finish in the Championship Four division, as it placed second, behind only McGill University--a Canadian powerhouse featuring several national team oarsmen. Harvard overpowered the other college crews, including a strong Yale squad...
...hearing last week in Philadelphia was convened to determine whether Abu-Jamal will get a second trial. A high-powered defense team is not only raising constitutional questions about the first trial but also challenging the investigation and evidence that led to Abu-Jamal's conviction. But Joseph McGill, the former assistant district attorney who prosecuted Abu-Jamal in June 1982, declares that it was "by far one of the strongest cases against a defendant that I've ever had." At the time, the jury seemed to agree: the panel deliberated only four hours...
Later these hormones play a housekeeping role in the growth and maintenance of brain cells in both sexes. (In boys some testosterone is converted to estrogen in the brain.) When estrogen is in short supply, memory and thought processes can suffer. Psychologist Barbara Sherwin at Montreal's McGill University has studied the effects of estrogen therapy on women who have had their ovaries removed and thus produce very little estrogen of their own. She found that women who were given injections of estrogen were better at learning and recalling pairs of words than those given a placebo. The effect...
Canadian poet and McGill professor Anne Carson,a guest commentator featured in each of the NobelLegacy specials, disagrees with Herschbach'soptimistic analysis. She points out the negativeeffects of technological developments, likeindustrial pollution, and expresses concern overthe impacts of science on human life...
March of the Living: Commemmorating the Holocaust and Celebrating Renewal. Howard Katz, associate dean, McGill University. Wiener Auditorium...