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Perhaps the biggest scandal has thrust the spotlight onto the obscure sport of skeleton, in which "sliders" on sleds speed headfirst down an icy track. Several female athletes have accused U.S. team coach Tim Nardiello of sexual harassment. In a note to the board of the sport's governing body, Felicia Canfield, who did not make the Olympic team, said that Nardiello "tried to kiss me on the lips" and that she "along with a dozen other athletes have heard Tim say over the radio, "The only time I want to see your legs spread like that...
...people don't realize is that the purpose of sleep may be more to rest the mind than to rest the body. Indeed, most of the benefits of eight hours' sleep seem to accrue to the brain: sleep helps consolidate memory, improve judgment, promote learning and concentration, boost mood, speed reaction time and sharpen problem solving and accuracy. According to Sonia Ancoli-Israel, a psychologist at the University of California at San Diego who has done extensive studies in the aging population, lack of sleep may even mimic the symptoms of dementia. In recent preliminary findings, she was able...
...MISSION Using Jupiter's gravity to speed it on its way, New Horizons will be the first probe to take close-up images of Pluto and analyze its atmosphere, thus enabling astronomers to understand how the icy bodies of the Kuiper Belt came...
...planet moves farther from the sun, the atmosphere freezes back onto the surface ? Pluto is one of only two planets that rotate on their horizontal axis. Uranus is the other. A day on Pluto is equal to 6.4 days on Earth. ? A radio signal moving at the speed of light takes about 4½ hours to reach Pluto from Earth
...that Harvard put past Raider goaltender Brooke Wheeler in the final frame to secure the win. The goals grabbed the momentum back from Colgate after Kiira Dosdall’s goal in the middle period kept the Raiders in the game.“Progressively we picked up our speed and connected our passes and started to really make things happen,†Schroyer said. “We developed throughout the game.â€Raimondi kick-started the Crimson offense in the opening frame by stealing a pass at the Colgate blue line and beating Wheeler with...