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...knew that Federer ate candy bars before Grand Slam finals? The one request he's made to the All-England Club [which runs Wimbledon] is that they furnish the locker rooms with Kit Kats. The thing I found most remarkable is the Wimbledon locker room, which the players share. I played middle school basketball, and we wouldn't prepare in the same room as the opposition. These guys were in the fifth set of a Grand Slam final, with the rule of the sport hanging in the balance, and during the rain delays they are both repairing to the same...
...first rain delay Nadal was up two sets to love, and his uncle, Toni Nadal - who is also his coach - basically says, "You're up two sets to love. What do you need me for?" Then he actually took a nap in the locker room. [During] the second rain delay, in the fifth set, Uncle Toni is giving Nadal a pep talk, and Nadal interrupts him and says, "Look, don't worry. I won the first and second sets - I can win the final...
...Appendicitis afflicts roughly one in 10 people during their lifetime and accounts for more emergency abdominal surgeries than any other ailment. Yet, as emergency room doctors know too well, diagnosing the condition is neither easy nor fast...
...Over the next 18 months, researchers analyzed urine samples from 67 pediatric patients who came to Children's emergency room with possible cases of appendicitis. Of those, 25 were confirmed to have the sharply painful condition; samples from the other patients were used as controls. Steen explains that in an emergency room situation, physicians are often faced with distinguishing appendicitis from conditions involving abdominal pain, so it made sense to mimic this contrast in the protein analysis as well...
...served as camoufleurs during wartime. When World War II broke out, applications from painters, sculptors, even ad men flooded Fort Belvoir, Va., the military's headquarters for camouflage development. "There must be something intriguing about the word 'camouflage,' " an officer told TIME in 1942 before cautioning, "There is no room for the esthetic color expert, or for any man who can't march 20 miles a day carrying a full pack...