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...Harvard junior, who stands at 6’1 and whose pitches top out at 83 mph from the mound—modest numbers in collegiate ranks dominated by smoke-throwing giants—learned how to throw underhanded not long...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brown Submarines Way to Dominance | 3/21/2006 | See Source »

...severe disease, it can be extremely frustrating. My hope is that we can develop methods that will ultimately cure this disease.” Umetsu is already studying ways to prevent NKT cells from causing asthma. Asthma attacks are caused by immune system cells overreacting to relatively benign dust, smoke, or other irritants, restricting breathing in the process. According to results of the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, the frequency of NKT cells in asthmatic patients is roughly a 100 times that found in non-asthmatics. Students afflicted with asthma cheered the advance...

Author: By Harlan M. Piper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cure For Asthma May Come Soon | 3/21/2006 | See Source »

...smiling gleefully, and weeping at the same time. Like hundreds of other young people boxed in by riot police between the Bon Marché department store and the Hotel Lutetia in the heart of the Left Bank, his eyes were running in reaction to pungent tear gas and smoke from a burning newspaper kiosk. Amid the uproar, Diakite and his fellow students felt a budding sense of empowerment. Up to half a million young people had gone, some riotously, to the streets throughout France on Thursday. Then, joined by union members and sympathizers, as many as 1.5 million participated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advance and Retreat | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

...does not evoke deprivation, and it's more complicated than a bad habit: it involves food. The old messages won't work, says veteran Democratic operative Michael Berman, whose new memoir, Living Large, chronicles his struggles to come to terms with being fat. "This is different from second-hand smoke, where you can have a program of abstinence. You can give up smoking. You can't give up eating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Politics of Fat | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

...Paris, was smiling gleefully and weeping at the same time. Like hundreds of other young people boxed in by riot police between the Bon March department store and the Hotel Lutetia in the heart of the Left Bank, Diakite was choking in air pungent with tear gas and smoke from a burning newspaper kiosk. Amid the uproar, he and his fellow students felt a budding--and maybe false--sense of empowerment. Could half a million young people in the streets throughout France bring an embattled government to its knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter From Paris: The Revenge of the Not-So-Radicals | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

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