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There is no place like home.In its Ivy home opener Friday night, the women’s volleyball team extended its winning streak to six games, defeating Dartmouth 3-0. Freshman Anne Carroll Ingersoll and senior Kathryn McKinley led Harvard (7-7, 2-0 Ivy) to its second victory over the Big Green (4-8, 0-2) in just a week, 25-15, 25-12, 25-21.The road-weary Crimson welcomed the fan-filled, supportive home atmosphere.“It was so fun to play for friends and family,” McKinley said. “And it makes...
...six-month intervention, all the girls who read books had lost weight, but the girls who read Lake Rescue lost more. They lowered their body mass index (BMI), a ratio of weight and height used to measure obesity, by .71, compared with .33 in the Charlotte group an average .05 increase among the nonreaders...
...girls typically have a BMI between 16 and 19; the BMI of the girls in the study group was on average between 27 and 28. "If you start with a preteen with a BMI of 27, and if she continues to increase her BMI at her current rate, in six months she would probably be at 28," says Armstrong. "But instead of going from 27 to 28, she now goes from 27 to 26.3, which would put her in the normal BMI range by time she is 13. [Otherwise], she would have a BMI of over 30 by the time...
...cases is displayed by •increase in powers of vice president is desired by •"maverick" is repeatedly uttered in debate by •"nucular" is repeatedly uttered in debate by •removal of from Republican ticket is urged by former supporter of •self is identified as "normal Joe Six-Pack American" by •situation of teenage girl raped by her father is referred to as "absolutely less than ideal...
...offered the chance of a reprieve. They have made public 24 words that face deletion because editors could find no example of their use in their database of English-language books, newspapers, broadcasts and other media. If, by February 2009, a word reappears in that database with at least six "high quality" citations, it could be spared from the semantic dustbin. "We're looking to see if dropping a little stone in the pond of language actually does generate ripples," says Brookes...