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...call it the first punch,” Smith said. “If you throw the first one, it makes a big difference, sets the tone. That’s been an emphasis for us. We succeeded in doing that, but we weren’t able to sustain it for the whole game.” Princeton turned the tables in the second to outscore Harvard by the same margin and send the teams into the break locked up at five. After a lackluster second, things went from bad to worse in the third, as the Tigers quickly...
...Sidwell said. “Ever since middle school or even elementary school, I’ve been planning social events.” Sidwell will work closely with Assistant Dean of the College David Friedrich and Judith Kidd, Associate Dean of Student Life and Activities, to sustain the range of social activities offered to students. “Sarah brings tremendous experience, knowledge, and enthusiasm to this position and we know that her talents will benefit students immensely,” Friedrich said in a statement released by the College. “I’ve worked with...
...Columbia economic professor Nouriel Roubini pointed out in a recent report written for private clients, car sales in China have been "artificially boosted on a temporary basis by incentives" and so are unlikely to sustain their rise. Similarly, a spike in purchases of white goods in China's countryside was largely caused by discount vouchers supplied to consumers by Beijing, Roubini notes...
...Until now, only rodents and human newborns have been known to have any significant deposits of brown fat, so called because of its abnormally high concentration of dark-colored mitochondria, the engines that sustain cell activity. The primary purpose of brown fat is to regulate body temperature: the mitochondria-packed cells are designed to burn high quantities of sugar, the body's fuel, and release that energy as heat - a mechanism that newborns, fresh from the warm confines of the womb, rely on to keep them toasty...
...Though Nick considers the polo team to be in the upper reaches of the club sports, gaining varsity status for the team is not his goal. He wants to sustain undergraduate participation because “what that transfers down to is the athletic department, and the school realizing that there are kids who are involved and there could be a place permanently for polo if there was support,” he says. “Ideally, we want everybody to come out and play who can, and hopefully in the future, if alumni and the school itself realize...