Word: specialist
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Sophomore Oliver Marti, Brown's crease-specialist and leading scorer in the Ivy League, was named Rookie of the Week after tallying nine goals against Dartmouth and New Hampshire. Marti, a native of British Columbia, just transferred to Brown this year. He has played box lacrosse all his life. This is his first season playing outdoors...
...nuclear engineer or plant operator to work on 52 of the country's 55 plants at a moment's notice. By contrast, each of the 112 U.S. nuclear plants, which produce 21% of the nation's electricity, was custom built at its site. So when something goes wrong, a specialist has to fix it, causing delays that tend to make U.S. plant shutdowns longer than in France...
According to Dr. Robert Cantu, a Concord, Mass., sports-medicine specialist, athletic ability consists of three elements. Endurance generally peaks in the late 20s and is sustainable into the mid-30s, then deteriorates slowly, at about 1% a year. Strength peaks later, perhaps not until the 40s, then deteriorates even more slowly. Coordination, including reflexes, can be maintained at nearly 100% capability until...
...when they became infected, and in each case it was during unprotected sex.) Each liter of the men's blood contained as many as 10 million infectious viruses. "This is the first time anyone has reported such high levels of infectious virus early on," says Dr. Eric Daar, a specialist in infectious disease and one of the leaders of the UCLA study. "We've never seen these levels before except in people with severe AIDS...
Before moving out with his unit to Saudi Arabia last September, Army Specialist Anthony Riggs took out a $50,000 life-insurance policy with the military and another policy for an undisclosed amount with a private firm. Two weeks ago, Riggs returned to Detroit on leave. As he was loading his wife's belongings into his Nissan Sentra, Riggs was fatally shot by someone who then proceeded to steal...