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...granted the Warriors a brief respite—one they eagerly capitalized on just 10 seconds later. Perched at the right point, defenseman Bryan Schmidt feigned a one-timer, then quickly slipped the puck to the left post, where Mike Fournier greedily awaited its arrival. His tap-in broke Harvard's momentum and, it appeared, Tobe's confidence...
...Republicans have managed to tap into and hijack some mainstream parts of the American ethos and claim them as their own. While some have called the election proof that the American people can be trusted in their decisions, I recall James Madison's words from the Federalist papers, "Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm...
...stadiums in the past 10 years. Total investment: $3 billion, $2.4 billion of which has been put up by owners. To keep those projects going--new stadiums are abuilding in Dallas and Phoenix, Ariz.--the league maintains in-house finance and stadium-design arms that the owners can tap when needed...
...president of TAP Pharmaceutical Products, Watkins, 51, proved his mettle as both master marketer and manager. Not only did he help turn its antacid Prevacid into a $3.2 billion über-blockbuster and double the company's annual revenues, to $4 billion; he also helped the firm clean up its act after it paid $875 million in fines and civil penalties in 2001, in part for bribing doctors to prescribe one of its drugs. Now as the new CEO of Human Genome Sciences, in Rockville, Md., Watkins has taken on a different challenge. Since HGS was founded...
...identify the changing patterns of neuronal firing during sleep. "There are days when we can record up to 500 neurons, but that's not typical," says Bruce McNaughton, a psychologist and physiologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, who studies rats. More typically, he is able to tap between 50 and 100 neurons. That's not a lot when you consider that even a rodent's brain has 125 million neurons. But it was enough to get him started...