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...clear even before tipoff that this road contest would be unusual for the Crimson, as Lin’s announcement in the starting lineup brought thunderous applause from the spectators. Even though the senior guard had represented Harvard in the Bay Area once before—during a disastrous Stanford tournament two seasons ago—Lin noted the challenge of facing so much scrutiny, particularly given his status as the face of the Crimson program...
...tried to stay a little more relaxed [than against Stanford], and it wasn’t very easy,” he said. “I’ve never really had a game with more support than this game in my entire life. That made me real nervous...
...afraid to cuss out his boys and even dole out a bit of corporal punishment in order to teach his team to man up? No, insists Shropshire, who recalls getting showered with unprintable verbal abuse by one assistant coach while he was an offensive lineman at Stanford in the 1970s. "Society has evolved," he says. "We shouldn't be longing for the good old days...
...well-known long-term study conducted at Stanford University, researchers tracked nearly 1,000 runners (active members of a running club) and nonrunners (healthy adults who didn't have an intensive exercise regimen) for 21 years. None of the participants had arthritis when the study began, but many of them developed the condition over the next two decades. When the Stanford team tabulated the data, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine in 2008, it found that the runners' knees were no more or less healthy than the nonrunners' knees. And It didn't seem to matter how much...
...sides of a mountain may have different climates, even though they're close to each other. In areas with varied terrain including lots of hills, therefore, hospitable conditions might be available relatively nearby. "That was the unexpected message," says Loarie, an ecologist at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University. "There's lots of buffering capacity in heterogeneous landscapes...