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...game wound down, it looked as though Penn was going to register its first Ivy League win in two seasons, but the Crimson struck twice in the 79th minute to put the Quakers away...
...what eyes! Peering through a microscope at a twisted-wing male, Cornell neurobiologists Elke Buschbeck, Birgit Ehmer and Ron Hoy were struck by the unusually large lens facets in X. peckii's eyes. The compound eyes of most insects have hundreds of much smaller facets. Each focuses on a handful of photo receptors and produces only a single point in the insect's visual field. But the researchers, reporting last week in the journal Science, found that each of X. peckii's 100 eyelets is really a complete eye with its own retina, consisting of some 100 receptors, that samples...
...September, the chunky young auteur faced a packed house at the Toronto Film Festival and smiled. "We're here tonight," Kevin Smith said, "and lightning has not struck the building. So I guess it's O.K. with the Lord." Smith, 29, had endured a rough six months, ever since the Catholic League, a lay group with 350,000 members and an intimidating letterhead, had pressured the Walt Disney Co. and its subsidiary Miramax Films to drop Dogma, Smith's rambunctious comedy about God, faith and a monster made of poop. Smith was able to make his movie freely...
...these fears warranted? By every measure, the answer is no. With both homicides and accidental deaths steeply declining, the workplace is safer than ever. You're twice as likely to get struck by lightning as to be murdered by a co-worker. While the number of homicides among co-workers in 1998 remained roughly the same as in 1993, the odds of being murdered by a colleague have declined because the work force has grown by 12 million since then. Workplace homicides of all types (whether by workers or strangers) have fallen from...
...What struck you about your character...