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...hard to pinpoint just when it happened. Some will say it came as early as November, when Harvard racked up more points than it had in any of the previous 98 editions of The Game to trample Yale, 45-7. Others will contend that it didn't happen until May, when Crimson crews controlled the Eastern Sprints and Harvard hardballers brought home the University's 12th Ivy League championship of the year...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: The Year That Was | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...test. Oddly enough, Michels passed the first, confidential screening, reportedly because it was not as complete as the urinalysis conducted later. Michels reportedly told fellow athletes that the technicians awed him by naming the date in April when he had last used steroids and by saying they could also pinpoint the exact dosage. The twelve athletes who fled before facing the test insist that they are not steroid users, but some said that they were worried about urinalysis turning up other, more innocuous substances like caffeine, which are also on the IOC's list of more than 300 banned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Caracas Drug Bust | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

...know whether to be reflexive or cognitive. Suppose a child gets into a compromising situation where it has lost the reflex and has not acquired the learned behavior that has to come in to supplant the lost reflex." Lipsitt hopes to devise a specific test that will pinpoint those few children who may be in jeopardy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do Babies Know? | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...year is far slower than that of a monkey or even an elephant, it is nonetheless so dramatic-from lying flat on its back to the first creeping across the floor to the first faltering steps around the corner of the kitchen table-that scientists persist in trying to pinpoint when and how it learns each new accomplishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do Babies Know? | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...second stanza saw the spikes forging ahead, 5-1, thanks to another Ross ace and pinpoint setting from the Martin tandem Princeton out the deficit to one, 5-4, through Norman and Julian Herencia's short spikes...

Author: By Mohammed Kashani-sabet, | Title: Spikers Nab First Ivy Championship, Down Princeton in Final, 15-9, 15-8 | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

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