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...like seeing the bear in the pattern of stars that make up Ursa Major. The crystallography technique was once used by legendary dna discoverers James Watson and Francis Crick. As Jhoti notes, "it took Watson and Crick over a decade just to image one dna molecule." Astex has sped up the process with a series of computer algorithms and hardware processes...
Wendell scored her second goal of the game on a play similar to Vaillancourt’s in which she managed to beat Harvard junior goalie Ali Boe. With the score tied 2-2, Wendell sped down the ice with the puck during a Crimson power play and deked to her left, then brought the puck around to her right and just past Boe’s outstretched left leg. The shorthanded goal was Wendell’s sixth of the season, and Minnesota’s 16th...
...opposite sex. Every woman I've asked has said no, often with an incredulous head-shake; every man has said yes. One fellow - we'll call him Steve - told me of a time he was driving across the Brooklyn Bridge and spotted a luscious woman on the walkway. He sped ahead, parked by a bench in a park just below the Bridge exit and sat there waiting for her, ready to make blithe conversation, as if he hadn't just executed an Earnhardt in hopes his impromptu romantic gambit would...
...Bush paid lip service to environmental policy—since former vice president Al Gore ’69 wanted to be the environmental president. In the past three years, he has sped resource development on public land across the country. He backed off his 2000 campaign promise to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, and he abandoned the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that had been so important to Gore. In the year 2000 alone, the number of general drilling permits doled out by the government increased to 5,222. That’s 50 percent higher than the average of the three...
...terminal, Andrew K. Abdou, a sophomore at Northeastern University, was frantically muttering into his cell phone as he sped up the stairs. Two minutes later, Abdou was berated by fellow traveler Bobby P. McGee of Emerson College...