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...would notice it because the opposing coaches and players are all imploring one another to keep an eye on her, yelling out the number on her jersey. You would see because she somehow manages to chase down and impact virtually every play made on the lengthy span of artificial turf...
...goal performance in 2004 was a modest increase from her 16-goal output from 2003. She fell from second in points on the team in 2003 to fifth in 2004. Her shot percentage improved by just .003 in that span...
Three games into the season, it appeared that the scouts had him pegged. Stehle blocked six shots and pulled down 13 boards in that span, while contributing nine points per contest...
...yeoman's work Hubble has done--peering deeper into the universe and farther back in time than eyes or earthbound instruments had ever managed--its prospects looked bleak a few months ago. The telescope was facing eventual loss of power and gyroscope failure, which would cut short its life-span by years. But given President Bush's ambitious plans for a manned moon and Mars program, NASA was looking for projects to chop. A shuttle mission to service the Hubble seemed pricey and, after the loss of the shuttle Columbia, risky. So the agency said it would let the telescope...
Nutritionally, the shift away from wild meat, fruits and vegetables to a diet mostly of cultivated grain robbed humans of many of the essential amino acids, vitamins and minerals they had thrived on. Average life span increased, thanks to the greater abundance of food, but average height diminished. Skeletons also began to show a jump in calcium deficiency, anemia, bad teeth and bacterial infections. Most meat that people ate came from domesticated animals, which have more fat than wild game. Livestock also supplied early pastoralists with milk products, which are full of artery-clogging butterfat. But obesity still wasn...