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...very short period of time since the New Year began--a span of five games, to be exact--Harvard has seemingly experienced the full spectrum of basketball competence and emotion...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tenacious D: 2001: A Basketball Oddity | 1/17/2001 | See Source »

...Israeli scorpion, a 5-in.-long species known as the "death stalker," may offer hope for the 25,000 Americans each year who have glioma, an incurable, rapidly spreading form of brain cancer. Surgery provides only a temporary respite, and the few experimental therapies extend a patient's life span only weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potions From Poisons | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...projects span all disciplines, from archeology to astronomy...

Author: By Joshua E. Gewolb, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Helping Small-Time Scientists Answer Big Questions | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

Best of all, the man knew his audience. He didn't rail against our lack of an attention span; he played to it. The minute that big, easily bored, sugar-fueled baby that is the American public started to drift off, he'd grab a straw hat and a banjo and somehow get us back. And so we never turned him off. We sat and watched, grinning and glassy-eyed, waiting expectantly to see what the funny man with the fat red nose would do next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What I'll Miss About Bill Clinton | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

play, but Clemente rattled in the next six points in a span of only 31 seconds to ice the game for the Crimson...

Author: By Timothy Jackson and Amy E. Ooten, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: M. Hoops Goes Splits Four Games Over Winter Break | 1/5/2001 | See Source »

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