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...tend to teach by humor and shock," DeVore says. "I try to keep bored undergraduates awake...
...selection of Minnesota as the third seed in the tournament was a complete shock to the Crimson, since Harvard had blown out the Golden Gophers 8-3 at Minnesota in their only meeting of the season...
...gradual rate increases are being ignored by the public - a state of affairs that could eventually result in a mass loss of confidence when the market wakes up and sees the impending effects of the rate rises. Instead, they say, Greenspan should hike rates by one percent and shock the market to its senses in one fell swoop...
...graduating from a St. Louis, Mo., high school where she was one of very few blacks, Elizabeth Johnson wanted to "try something different." She enrolled at Lincoln University, a historically black college founded by African-American Civil War veterans in Jefferson City, Mo. But Johnson was in for a shock when she arrived at her first class. "I was the only black face in the room," recalls the 19-year-old sophomore...
That's not all: If the pencil had taken a slightly different trajectory, it could have destroyed far more of the heart's blood-pumping machinery. And it just missed an artery in Nathan's chest that could have bled enough to send the boy into shock. "As it was," says Williams, "there couldn't have been more than a thimbleful of blood in the pericardium [the membrane surrounding the heart]. He needed no transfusion, which is fairly unusual for a child undergoing heart surgery...