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...usher in a new cadre of defensive backs without losing much confidence in its defense. Harvard’s system is not unlike the one used by the New England Patriots, who frequently deploy three safeties in a package head coach Bill Belichick calls the “Big Nickel.” Sophomore Brian Niemczak, a safety in high school, will play the weak-side linebacker slot, while senior Xavier Goss takes over at free safety...
...happy 24/7. I can be happy, giddy, sad, mad, irritable. What teenager doesn't have emotions? One item on the list is being "very intuitive or very creative." Another is "poor handwriting." When did it become a warning sign to be creative? And if I had a nickel for every person in Fairfield County who has poor handwriting, I would be the next Bill Gates. DIANA LYNN, 15 Redding, Conn...
...Sweat It If euro price inflation is making you sweat, better wear gloves. Researchers at the University of Zurich have found that one- and two-euro coins can cause bad skin reactions when exposed to sweat, releasing 320 times the amount of nickel allowed under E.U. rules...
...breakthrough, but she's been perfecting her distinctive take on the funny pages since she was a kid in Seattle. "I started selling my drawings pretty early on," she says. "They were a weird amalgam of Playboy and Betty and Veronica. I used to sell those for a nickel." At Evergreen State College, which she describes as a small "hippie" school in Washington State that she attended in the 1970s, she drew comics for the school newspaper. "I was studying fine arts," she remembers, "and I went through a period when I had to call them drawings with words, because...
While pollution still plagues much of the world, progress is being made. This May in Sudbury, Ont., I saw new forests that were recolonizing hills destroyed by 100 years of nickel mining. The community raised the money and worked for months spreading lime and planting vegetation on the blackened rock. I released the first brook trout into a once poisoned creek there...