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...marked the passing of a year since my injury. I knew I'd never regain what I had lost in penmanship, tennis, home repair, lovemaking, freedom from pain and dexterity. Even putting on a tie remained a challenge, one fraught with danger. Rushing to a TV appearance a few weeks earlier, I tried to knot one in the backseat of a taxi. I gripped the short end with my prosthetic hand, which began to spin uncontrollably, almost strangling me before I managed to extricate myself...
...both Princeton and Yale by 15-50 scores. Harvard’s chances were critically hurt due to the absence of four-time All-America junior Lindsey Scherf, who sat out her second straight team meet to start the season. Both the men and women will look to regain their stride next Saturday at Van Cortlandt Park in New York City, where they will compete in the Iona Meet of Champions. —Staff writer Caleb W. Peiffer can be reached at cpeiffer@fas.harvard.edu...
...world have received educations that prepare them for the opportunities of a global economy, you have been fed propaganda and conspiracy theories that blame others for your country's shortcomings. And everywhere you turn, you hear extremists who tell you that you can escape your misery and regain your dignity through violence and terror and martyrdom. For many across the broader Middle East, this is the dismal choice presented every...
...probably improve health. But dieting is more problematic. As most people who've tried it will attest, dieting with a goal of achieving lasting weight loss is all but guaranteed to fail. According to the Eating Disorders Foundation of Victoria, 95% of people who go on weight-loss diets regain everything they've lost and more within two years. But why? Do all these people lack self-control? Highly unlikely. Proponents of the set-point theory argue that everyone's body is biologically programmed to stay around a certain weight and will fight attempts at maintaining a weight more than...
World Basketball Can Team U.S.A. rebound for gold? Without a big title since 2000, the U.S. men's basketball team will try to regain its glory at this week's World Championships. The gold is no layup, but would get the team into the 2008 Olympics...