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...least four eyewitnesses have described a slow-moving car driving ahead of the Mercedes in the right lane of the express road before it entered the tunnel at 12:25 a.m. on Aug. 31. Two off-duty chauffeurs standing near the tunnel entrance heard the roar of the motor as the Mercedes downshifted and accelerated. Directly in front of the speeding vehicle, they said, was a dark-colored sedan moving at normal speed. (The speed limit in the tunnel is 30 m.p.h.) They saw the Mercedes swerve into the left lane in an attempt to pass the car. Once...
Around 9 a.m. on Saturday, the team rowed under the overpass of the Boston University (BU) bridge. Kate C. McCarthy '99, the team's coxswain, noticed a state police boat cruising near the area of the bridge and was afraid the crew team would run into the motor boat...
However, the motor boat soon moved...
Morton may well have performed an even more remarkable service to modern medicine by establishing a link between metabolic disorders like glutaric aciduria and cerebral palsy. Most practitioners have long believed that oxygen deprivation or trauma at or before birth causes cerebral palsy, a motor disorder that reflects injury to the cerebral cortex and basal ganglia. But Dr. Karin Nelson at the National Institutes of Health, as well as colleagues at other research centers, has concluded that these causes do not explain most cases of the disease. "Holmes Morton has given us fresh insight into the source of cerebral palsy...
...shot to the top of the U.S. exports list, with $29 billion in sales last year. Commerce Department statistics released Tuesday paint an astounding picture of Silicon Valley: San Jose posted an 81 percent rise in exported goods over the last four years, bypassing New York and even the motor giants of Detroit...