Word: performs
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...their surprise, the watching scientists found a reverse correlation between performance and early health. As youngsters, the best-performing Tektite scientists had been in much poorer health than most of their schoolmates. On the average, they stayed home sick two weeks every year. By comparison, other healthy adults report that they were sick only one week each year while they were growing up. Moreover, Helmreich reports, "We found a definite correlation between how many days an aquanaut was sick as a child and how well he performed in Tektite. The more he stayed home sick as a child, the better...
...affair with Bergman, Liv resembled another famous Norwegian woman, Nora Helmer in Ibsen's A Doll's House (1879). Like Nora, Liv was loved and protected but also patronized. "I have existed merely to perform tricks for you, Torvald," said Ibsen's heroine to her husband. "But you would have it so." Like Nora, Liv rebelled. As Nora's husband commented shortly before she closed that famous door on her domestic life, "she is terribly self-willed, this sweet little person...
Felix Adedeji, whose back problem has been a source of concern all season long, appears to be on the way back after a disappointing campaign. Adedeji played in Saturday's scrimmage and may finally be ready to perform at the high level that Crimson fans have come to expect from the All-Ivy junior forward...
...Brown and Mohere's Don Juan. It's also the headquarters for a variety of goings on the Phoenix is sponsoring at Boston-area colleges. Last week Brown's director Hal Prince gave a talk on O'Neill at the Loeb and tomorrow members of the company will perform a work drawn from Sean O'Casey's writings on women. While it is unlikely that such happenings will reach many Boston students, rarely has the road to Broadway been paved with such good intentions...
...Sasha the Psycho" because his hands shake nervously when he calls on his customers late at night-simply pillage empty or unguarded churches. Others tour the countryside in search of icons, claiming to be museum officials or priests. Many Muscovites seem to feel that the icon racketeers unwittingly perform a service for Russia. Since the state has been negligent in preserving a heritage, the argument goes, it has been left to thieves to rescue the images from abandoned churches and attics, where they would otherwise remain decaying and unseen...