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...Brown shots but could not stop the final rebound before it found the stick of a perfectly positioned Bear. Pummeled by a cascade of shots, Knoche refused to allow the Brown rush to develop into a rally. Her eight second-period saves kept the Crimson within striking distance. And it looked like the Crimson would strike. Racing the clock as the final minutes ran out, Harvard nearly capitalized on a long free hit but could not convert. A last hopeful attempt was made as the Crimson forced the ball into Bear territory, but the pass into the circle...
...least, not if you’re a mouse. The Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has provided red-haired rodents with a way to brown. And the discovery could have major implications for the prevention of melanoma—a disease that is estimated to strike one in 75 Americans at some point in their lifetime. In a study published yesterday by the journal Nature, David E. Fisher, director of the Melanoma Program at Dana-Farber and a professor in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Boston, has found that induced tans protect at-risk mice?...
...excitedly trying to avoid capture, but he didn’t strike me as being intentionally aggressive,” McMilliam said. “No punches were thrown...
...NASA officials say similar space junk has probably followed previous shuttles home, unnoticed and unscrutinized. But on a mission whose departure was beset by a fuel cell malfunction, a lightning strike on the launch pad and an approaching hurricane, the delay caused by the debris threatened to mar what has otherwise been a successful mission. After a four-year delay following the destruction of Space Shuttle Columbia, astronauts have finally resumed the construction of the International Space Station, installing 35,000 pounds of solar arrays and trusses. Fourteen more missions are needed to finish the job by 2010, when...
...will to bring about a different reality in Iran. There's a lot that can be done in terms of pressuring the Iranian leadership through diplomacy and economic sanctions." But if all that failed and Iran's nuclear program moved closer to a bomb, this diplomat warned, a military strike "would probably be something people would start thinking about...