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...told, the Crimson scored five third-period goals in a span of 6:59 to break open a game that had been too close for comfort...
...problem is that these nerve cells have had to work a lot harder to get the muscles moving -- like an eight-cylinder car running on four cylinders -- and after 30 or 40 years, that can take its toll. "Everything has a finite life-span, from a car engine to the human heart," says Dr. Lauro Halstead, director of the postpolio program at the National Rehabilitation Hospital and a polio survivor. "A motor neuron is no different. Neurons that normally drive 20 muscle cells in the polio patient may now have to supply up to 2,000 muscle cells. Basically, this...
...schools in the northeastwhere students don't have opportunity to be fullyeducated because of cable. We have no access toC-SPAN or CNN," he said
...California road trip, on which the Netwomen will face-off against six opponents in an eight-day span, should give the Crimson a chance to test its mettle against the elite in women's tennis, and hopefully raise some eyebrows...
...same: populations did not evolve in isolation but in concert, trading genetic material by interbreeding with neighboring groups. "Today," says Thorne, "human genes flow between Johannesburg and Beijing and between Paris and Melbourne. Apart from interruptions from ice ages, they have probably been doing this through the entire span of Homo sapiens' evolution...