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Sure, athletic performance is about much more than one gene. Venter sees genotyping as simply a tool that can help athletes tailor their strategies to their aptitudes. He knows he can train for the triathlon more effectively, for example, by nailing his swim technique than by working on the sprint finish. For now, Venter is already planning his next project: a start-up firm that could give customers sophisticated genetic information about not just sports performance but also weight regulation and blood-sugar levels. Eventually, he hopes, it will offer new insights into the fight against obesity. Now that sounds...
...Government department. “I turned to the last page of my second copy and realized that the printer had run out of paper and my bibliography wasn’t there,” she said. Kozak ran back to Mather to print the final page before sprinting across campus to CGIS. “I ran. Very quickly,” she said. Her thesis was handed in with several minutes to spare. As students in Economics, History, and Psychology turn in their senior theses this afternoon, they undoubtedly hope for a less dramatic finale...
Seeing the line stretching past Citibank and around the corner down Brattle Street, a group of hungry students burst into a sprint, eager to be among the first burrito enthusiasts to taste the offerings of the Square’s latest entrée into the world of fast-food Mexican: Chipotle. Chipotle—the Denver-based burrito chain—is hosting its grand opening today. Yesterday, the restaurant handed out free burritos from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., serving thousands of students, local residents and Chipotle devotees who made pilgrimages from around the area, despite the rain...
...candidates have been in a flat-out sprint since December. The fierce struggle for the first four contests left them tied, and Super Tuesday - a blizzard of 22 states voting at once - was an expensive and exhausting hurdle that did little to determine a victor. Now the race is settling down to a kind of waltz, two states here, three contests there, in the run-up to the next crucial showdown on March 4, when the delegate-rich states of Ohio and Texas hold their primaries. Clinton is banking on those two states, with their large Latino or blue-collar...
...nearly every diner and ballroom Mitt Romney stormed in a 60-hour campaign sprint before Super Tuesday, he declared that the fight for the Republican nomination was now a two-person contest. After the results from all 22 states are in, it appears declaring it does not make...