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...forward Evan Harris said. “We had a lot of point blank opportunities that we just missed.” The first minute of the second proved to be a harbinger of things to come for Harvard. After making a layup to tie the game at the onset of the second, sophomore Jeremy Lin missed a layup, which was followed by two wide open threes that missed the mark. The three-point arc haunted both teams throughout the second half. Harvard shot a combined 1-for-12 in the second, but Columbia proved to be a worthy adversary...
...Using the French and Italian she’d mastered as a Romance Languages and Literatures concentrator, McCulla conducted research for the Open Source Center, an office in suburban Virginia originally created to monitor Russian transmissions during the onset of the Cold...
Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset of Stanford's Hoover Institution thinks the "destabilization of belief systems" wrought by the Viet Nam War helped propel the sexual revolution along. The end of the war and the onset of a recession, he says, brought "a movement back to more stability" and a turn away from far-out sex in the mid-'70s. British Journalist Henry Fairlie, an astute observer of the American scene, thinks the tinkering with personal life-styles that characterized the '60s and early '70s inevitably bred distaste for further social change. "Endless questioning of all aspects of life from food...
...Housman hits his first three of the night, tying the game at 36 all. Amaker must've said something right at the half. Harvard is playing with far more poise at the onset of the second half...
...study group consisted of 1.38 million births recorded in Denmark, from 1973 to 1995. Children were followed from age 10 until their death, their departure from Denmark, the onset of schizophrenia or the end of the study period in 2005. Researchers determined also whether the birth mothers had suffered extreme stress - due either to the death or illness (heart attack, cancer or stroke) of a first-degree relative - six months prior to and at any time during pregnancy. The data showed that women who experienced a close family member's death during the first three months of pregnancy...