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...likeness. But even among a group renowned for being superstitious - athletes have tried to bust slumps by donning women's underwear, eating the same meal each day and performing elaborate foul-line rituals - talk of a Madden Curse doesn't seem to have caught much traction. And for good reason. Most of the under-performing cover stars were felled by injury - a common affliction in a brutally rough sport: According to a 2005 study, nearly 70% of football players suffer an injury each year. Those whose skills seemed to dwindle during their cover season may simply have peaked quickly...
...health officials have repeatedly emphasized, with good reason, the swine flu situation is evolving rapidly, and more lab tests are needed to ascertain exactly what is going on in Mexico and elsewhere. "We want to make sure we're on solid ground," said Fukuda, a highly respected former CDC official and flu expert...
...dinosaurs, what did? Paleontologists have advanced all manner of other theories over the years, including the appearance of land bridges that allowed different species to migrate to different continents, bringing with them diseases to which native species hadn't developed immunity. Keller and Addate do not see any reason to stray so far from the prevailing model. Some kind of atmospheric haze might indeed have blocked the sun, making the planet too cold for the dinosaurs - it just didn't have to have come from an asteroid. Rather, they say, the source might have been massive volcanoes, like the ones...
...played consistent golf. I tried to make the course as easy as possible by staying out of trouble.”Cho, the newly-crowned Ivy League rookie of the year, took a more dramatic approach, accumulating 10 bogeys in her opening round.“For some reason I didn’t really feel warmed up with my game in general, and I made a lot of stupid mistakes,” Cho said.But she quickly adjusted and found her rhythm, and her even-par 72 in the second round was the team’s best round...
Spring: 1. Traditionally March, April, and May. 2. Doesn’t exist at Harvard, where temperatures jump directly from “Inside the Arctic Circle” to “Inside of Your Mouth.” 3. Prefrosh. For some reason, always does exists during this weekend, when thousands of prospective students descend upon Harvard and mistakenly believe it is this beautiful all the time...