Word: tars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coach K., I know you are the Ivy League Coach of the Year, and you probably don't need any help scouting North Carolina. However, I thought I'd offer some suggestions for a game plan on how to kick some Tar Heel tail...
...Tar Heels are the fourth-ranked team in the nation and the number one seed in the East. On Saturday they captured their third ACC Championship in the last four years...
...short answer is no. The Crimson does not possess the talent of such national powers as the Hoosiers, Tar Heels or Terrapins. But there are a few indications that Harvard's annual jaunt southward may go smoother this year than it has in the past...
...into senescence in the late '50s. The jinx falls especially on those Presidents who return to the White House on landslides--Richard Nixon, for example, who annihilated George McGovern in 1972, and then, less than two years later, was forced to resign, a step ahead of the Senate's tar and feathers. Lyndon Johnson's great victory in 1964 over Barry Goldwater did not make L.B.J., strictly speaking, a second-termer (his "first term" was the unexpired part of John Kennedy's), but the evil eye fell on him nonetheless...
...some reason no longer work. This is where the problem of remyelination comes in. Studies of multiple sclerosis patients have proved useful; MS is an autoimmune disorder in which immune cells strip the spinal-cord nerves of their myelin. Decades ago, MS researchers began testing a derivative of coal tar, 4-aminopyridine (4-AP), to help MS patients gain as much use of their existing nerves as possible. The benefit of 4-AP in paralysis studies came when research with animals showed that a lack of myelin was significant in loss of muscle control. Paralyzed animals given intravenous...