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Assistant captain Rob Fried called the goals “two unlucky bounces.” And they were unlucky—but deservedly so. When in the first period you play a step slow all over the ice, put only four shots on goal, and produce zero scoring chances, then begin to play hockey late in the second, as Harvard did, you set yourself up for unlucky bounces...
Assistant captain Rob Fried called the goals “two unlucky bounces.” And they were unlucky—but deservedly so. When in the first period you play a step slow all over the ice, put only four shots on goal, and produce zero scoring chances, then begin to play hockey late in the second, as Harvard did, you set yourself up for unlucky bounces...
Molecular biologist Rob Ferl at the University of Florida wants to conduct similar experiments with mustard seeds. "The first generation of experiments would be enclosed in something like the rover," he says. "You'd use a mechanical arm to scoop up dirt and capture sunlight with light tubes...
...were numerous migratory-waterfowl deaths due to H5N1 in Hong Kong's Penfold and Kowloon parks. Mysteriously, when further screenings of migratory birds were conducted immediately after, no H5N1 was detected. "Did birds from Hong Kong, which nest in Siberia and North Korea, somehow spread the virus elsewhere?" asks Rob Webster, a pioneering expert in animal influenzas. "That's a frightening possibility...
Officials at the Guangdong CDC, while confident that culling the civets was necessary, are not totally convinced that it will curtail an outbreak. They have ordered a further extermination of rats--a much more elusive target--because of evidence that they carry a similar virus. Dr. Rob Breiman, an epidemiologist from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is leading the WHO team currently tracing the origins of last year's epidemic in Guangdong. Breiman observes, "Everyone certainly thinks this is meaningful. But where is the civet cat in the chain? Are they getting it from another animal...