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Harvard controlled this unusual three-team dual meet from the outset, finishing first and second in 10 of the 13 events, and sweeping five of them. The Harvard men swept the 400 medley relay, 200 free, 200 individual medley, 500 free, and 200 breaststroke...
...sounds. But by the age of six months, American babies no longer react when they hear variants of ee, and Swedish babies have become impervious to differences in eu. "It's as though their brains have formed little magnets," says Kuhl, "and all the sounds in the vicinity are swept...
...neighborly feelings and close family ties have been swept away by a tide of rising rent costs and escalating property values...
Baiul was swept away not only by abundance but also by the dual pressures of being a kid and not being a kid. Carlisle explains that the lapse occurred "because she collapsed so many years of her childhood into a very short period of time." She knew she had a shot at winning another Olympic gold medal in 1998 (Katarina Witt and Sonja Henie are the only women singles skaters to win more than one), but amateur skating's regimen and multiplicity of rules left her chagrined. So did the grueling professional schedule. And her body was changing, no longer...
...mail him. So I pose the questions, along with some more mundane technical ones, in a message a few days later. Answers to the tech issues come promptly. But he ignores the philosophical ones. Finally, weeks later, a note pops up in my mailbox, dispatched from storm-swept Seattle...