Word: nailed
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...best winning streak to eight games in sweeping a Top 10 squad, don’t expect a bump in the new rankings, as all the top teams took care of business this weekend. No. 1 Mercyhurst took two games from Princeton, the second victory a 1-0 overtime nail-biter on Saturday, in which the Lakers outshot the Tigers, 48-9. In the ECAC, St. Lawrence, Clarkson, and Colgate all picked up two wins apiece. No. 3 New Hampshire notched one “W,” and No. 4 Minnesota won a pair. The most intriguing result...
...things influence the way people behave, and we can’t nail it down to saying that a certain relationship caused a certain behavior,” Campbell said. “But researchers’ relationships with industry often influence their performance...
Susan Eaton, the research director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice—which sponsored the panel—said that a ruling in favor of the plaintiffs would represent “the hammer over the final nail in Brown v. Board of Education’s coffin...
...attemptto nail downthe question of whether prayer really can heal, six hospitals had strangers say prayers for 1,800 coronary-bypass patients and then studied the postoperative complications. Patients who were told they might or might not be prayed for had roughly the same complication rate, whatever their prayer status turned out to be. But those who were told for certain that they were in someone's prayers actually did worse. The doctors' tentative explanation: people who knew they were being prayed for might have thought they were sicker than they realized, which could have made their outcomes...
...pretty much all of their events against top guys from other schools.” The competition opened, however, with a critical team win for Harvard in a tight 200-medley relay. Rathgeber, freshman Simone Melillo, sophomore Bill Jones, and junior Pat Quinn each swam a leg in the nail-biter, as the Crimson edged out Columbia 1:32.46 to 1:33.92. Harvard added to its lead considerably in the 1000 freestyle, as Wollner finished first at 9:28.18, with teammates Mason Brunnick and Eric Lynch close behind. Columbia’s Kevin Wakefield beat Bill Jones to the wall...