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Ryan Lannon hunched over his knees near the goal, his arms stiff, his head down. Welch traced slow, defeated rings around the left faceoff circle. Grumet-Morris stood frozen in the crease, motionless as Wildcats celebrated behind him, until one by one, the Harvard skaters surrounded the goaltender...
Harvard faced stiff competition in Yale (4-4, 1-2 Ivy), which received votes in the top-20 poll—and the quality of the opposition lessened the sting of defeat...
...turns out the remains might have been Yokota's after all. In February, the British scientific journal Nature published an article in which the scientist who did the tests admitted they were inconclusive-and that the remains could have been contaminated with foreign DNA. "The bones are like stiff sponges that can absorb anything," Teikyo University DNA analyst Yoshii Tomio told a Nature interviewer. The technique Yoshii used, known as "nested PCR," also raised doubts: professional forensics labs in the U.S. don't use it because of the high risk of contamination, according to Terry Melton, a DNA expert...
Ryan Lannon hunched over his knees near the goal, his arms stiff, his head down. Welch traced slow, defeated rings around the left faceoff circle. Grumet-Morris stood frozen in the crease, motionless as Wildcats celebrated behind him, until one by one, the Harvard skaters surrounded the goaltender...
...nursery school, but something staid and serious instead—something like “Pre-Primary Preparatory Education.” The rugs and water tables of yore have been replaced with desks, nap time with tests, and hugs and Ginger the pet bunny with grades and a stiff pat on the back. I doubt many of us could have survived such an atmosphere, let alone get in to such a rigorous program. I know I couldn?...