Word: stage
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Harvard will have to beat the Spartans by a pair of goals in tonight's game to move on to the next stage of the tournament. If the Crimson beats the Spartans by a goal tonight, a series of 10-minute, sudden-death overtimes will follow until a winner emerges...
Because VHL victims usually do not show symptoms of the disorder until they are 20 to 50 years old, scientists are also developing a test that will detect the disease in children. Such a test would allow doctors to find and operate on tumors at an early stage, perhaps preventing blindness or paralysis, Seizinger said...
...Mental Health Center, Hobson uses electroencephalograms (EEG). He says measurements of the brain's electrical output, made by attaching electrodes to the head, show that the brain is almost 90 percent more active during REM sleep than at any other slumber time. The normal human passes through five distinct stages of sleep, with the REM stage following the lighter, first two stages. Sleep stages three and four--following REM chronologically--are deep sleep periods...
While Hobson and McCarley say they do not disagree with Freud's theory of dream expression, they assert that the REM stage involves more complex activities than rehashing past experiences...
...juxtaposition of these two stories as stage adaptations is a brilliant stroke of dramatic creativity, and the result is an effective representation of Gogol's strange genius. The cramped plainness of Leverett's D-entry basement (cleverly dubbed the "Gogol Space" for this production) is well-utilized in both pieces, first as a basement room heaped with junk for the adult storytellers to use as props, then as a cell in an asylum...