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...humiliating moment for Mike, who was called “the loneliest man in college football” by ESPN’s Chris Berman. Ironically, the error occurred when he had just started to get an increase in playing time. Despite the fact that Mike was a key contributor on the team that went on to win 12 consecutive games and the national championship, it was that one moment which people always remembered...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Family Wisdom Guides Suter | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

...taught Mike about the unpredictability of sports, how any athlete can be defined by one moment instead of an entire career, no matter how unfair that...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Family Wisdom Guides Suter | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

Krause says he does not spend much time engaged in such speculation. At the moment, he and his colleagues are preoccupied with sequencing the Denisova hominin's nuclear genome. Using high-tech lab equipment and supercomputers, they are trying to make sense of this strange and startling discovery, in much the same way that their ancestors might have done tens of thousands of years ago, when they peered out into a windswept Siberian clearing and saw creatures at once familiar and foreign moving through the snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scientists Discover an Ancient Human Relative | 3/24/2010 | See Source »

...think we’re at a moment where we must be thinking about doing something [about academic dishonesty],” said Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris. “I think looking much more carefully at honor codes is certainly something that would only be responsible at this moment...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu and Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Administrators Discuss College Honor Code | 3/24/2010 | See Source »

Europeans are gloating this week. The continent might be struggling with ballooning debts, a faltering euro and national strikes, but when the U.S. House voted in favor of President Barack Obama's health care bill Sunday night, March 21, Europeans seized the moment to thumb their noses at Americans and remind them that they've had pretty good health care for decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E.U. Gloats Over Belated U.S. Health Care Reform | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

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