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...would rank among sports' all-time highlights, but, sadly, no cameras were on hand when Candace Parker, a 6-ft. 4-in. women's basketball prodigy at the University of Tennessee, took on a member of the men's team this summer one-on-one. At one stage, Parker, 19, drove to her right and leaped toward the basket. Her opponent rose to block her shot. What followed had probably never before happened in the history of hoops: Parker dunked the ball over the player's outstretched hand, as several men playing a pickup game nearby froze, jaws agape...
...giving out “Winter Season Survival Kits” in dining halls today and tomorrow during lunch and dinner, in hope of staving off what they say is one of the top five reasons for weak academic performance. “Colds and flus tend to rank in the top five impediments to academic performance for college students,” said Keli M. Ballinger, CHI supervisor and manager of the Center for Wellness and Health Communication. “We really wanted to make sure we got information out there about cold and flu prevention, and what...
Under Cambridge's system of proportional representation, voters rank candidates in order of preference. Once first-place votes are counted, any candidate who has reached a predetermined quota is elected, and his or her extra votes are redistributed to the next candidate listed on each ballot. Candidates with the fewest first-place votes are eliminated and their votes are also redistributed...
...record, the de Young Museum, Herzog and de Meuron's latest and most intricately gratifying project, which opened recently in San Francisco, smells of only one thing: an unmistakable whiff of genius. This is a building to rank with the best to appear in the U.S. in the past few years, one to give Frank Gehry ideas. A sparkling enigma, it simultaneously cuts a sharp figure and demurely withdraws behind a camouflaged surface. Behind its blunt façade, glass-walled wedges of garden emerge inside. Herzog likes to compare it all to Kim Novak in Hitchcock's Vertigo, with...
...life, in which they provide long-term care to a very few young and must sail them safely into an often hostile world. Among some of our evolutionary kin--baboons, macaques and other old-world monkeys--this can be especially tricky since young females inherit their mother's social rank. The mothers must thus operate the levers of society deftly so as to raise both their own position and, eventually, their daughters'. If you think that kind of ambition-by-proxy doesn't translate to humans, Hrdy argues, think again. "Just read an Edith Wharton novel about women...