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...second quarter, with the Big Green already down 21-0, Balestracci applied the nail in the coffin. Dartmouth tried some trickery, lining up in a "diamond" formation that put receivers all over the place and the quarterback in the shotgun. With all the post-snap confusion caused by this offensive creativity, Dartmouth tried to run a fairly safe play, a shovel pass. It should have worked...
...uncertainties swirling around the phenomenon make it difficult for scientists to nail down a cause, but that hasn't stopped them from coming up with a long list of potential candidates. The theory that has the broadest support among scientists holds that early puberty is somehow tied up with a much more familiar phenomenon: weight gain. America is in the midst of an epidemic of overweight and obese kids; between the late '70s and the early '90s, the percentage of children ages 6 to 11 who were overweight nearly doubled, from 6.5% to 11.4%, according to the National Center...
...were happier [THE SUMMER OLYMPICS, Oct. 2]. Not having to watch in tense anticipation no doubt improved their mental health. Since Americans are accustomed to receiving news in real time, they might have learned that slowing things down is sometimes a good thing. Even so, they missed some real nail biters. SHINICHI MIYACHI Kyoto, Japan...
Naqushbandi sought revenge against Rose, as she teamed with McGinty to clinch a nail-biter over Rose and Mendoza...
...Ronnie had a weird natural vibrato - almost a tremolo, really - that modulated her little-girl timbre into something that penetrated the Wall of Sound like a nail gun. It is an uncanny instrument. Sitting on a ragged couch in my railroad flat, I could hear her through all the arguments on the street, the car alarms, the sirens. She floated above the sound of New York while also being a part of it - a Bronx-born Latina stomping her foot on the sidewalk and insisting on being heard...