Word: midpoints
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Young, 51, head of the W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., was born on New Year's Day at the precise midpoint of the 20th century. Back then, the thinking about spinal-cord injury was straightforward: When a cord is damaged, it's damaged. There's nothing that can be done after an injury to restore the function that was so suddenly lost...
...reading this article: If you happen to find yourself in this position, do not make this trip until Monday.) When I picked up the sealed manila envelope, I opened it and looked for the grade. It didn't seem obvious, and so I started reading the comments. At the midpoint of the scathing review of my work, I read the words that are ever burned into my memory. My preceptor wrote that he was utterly dismayed...
Using this idea, Thorne and his colleagues proposed constructing a wormhole tunnel 600 million miles in circumference, with Casimir plates separated by only 400 proton diameters at the midpoint. Time travelers would have to somehow open doors in these plates to pass through the wormhole. The mass required for construction? Two hundred million times the mass of the sun. These are projects only a supercivilization could attempt--not something for 21st century engineers...
After a solid first half, Harvard held a slim 4-3 lead at the midpoint of the match...
...midpoint of its season, the Harvard men's basketball team has the same record it had at this time last year, but has taken a vastly different route to get there...