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...many penalties against Harvard because they took some twisted pleasure in repeatedly provoking Botterill. At one point in the second period, the game was delayed about three minutes as Botterill chatted with a referee, skated back and talked to her bench, then--finding another conversation too great to resist--skated back to the referee to resume her dialogue, before finally taking a faceoff...
VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY Despite Katie Couric's crusade to educate the public about the importance of screening for colon cancer, there are still too many people who resist being tested because of discomfort or cost; an estimated 70% of the population is never screened. A new noninvasive screening technique may offer those most at risk a lifesaving alternative. Dubbed virtual colonoscopy, it uses digital data generated by multiple computer scans to create a high-resolution 3-D image of the intestine, which can then be displayed on a computer screen and visually probed for tell-tale polyps...
...many U.S. record buyers may still resist the Chicks. Americans over the past 35 years have remained attached to the idea of rock as an earnest, romantic mode of expression, never fully embracing the proudly incompetent Sex Pistols or the proudly impersonal technowizards like the Orb and Aphex Twin, all beloved by Europeans. What could most rankle American rock audiences is the Chicks' rejection of the notions that 1) good rock music is either soulful, finely wrought craftsmanship (Radiohead) or cathartic guitar bombast (Nirvana) and 2) letting producers help compose your songs is only for teenyboppers like Britney Spears. "Bands...
...William Allen White describes the Senate of the same era as "plutocratic feudalism." The description holds. Who could resist Missouri's Thomas Hart Benton, who, on the day a colleague in the Senate accused him of being quarrelsome, replied: "Mr. President, sir... I never quarrel, sir. But sometimes I fight, sir, and whenever I fight, sir, a funeral follows...
...complaint, the 5-ft. 7-in., 120-lb. girl said she did not resist the assault because she was "in a state of shock" that it was occurring and felt overwhelmed. Chmura stands 6 ft. 5 in. and weighs more than 200 lbs. At the party, after drinking repeated glasses of Mountain Dew and vodka allegedly refilled by Robert Gessert--she could not recall how many--the girl realized she was very drunk. All the while, she said, Chmura was downing straight whisky. At about 4:30 a.m., Gessert announced that it was "hot-tub time." When several...