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...According to Kramer, however, the final nail in the coffin came not from Waterstone’s but his own landlord, who refused to renew the lease on his store...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Niche Amid a Sea of Giants | 12/4/2006 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Chu Limps Off Ice, Later Returns to Bench With Wrapped Ankle | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Conflict of Interest Rampant Among Review Monitors | 12/1/2006 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Brenda C. Maldonado, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panel: Race Still Relevant | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year In Medicine From A to Z | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

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