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...knew it from the moment Lee Smith retired Matt Nokes on a fly ball to right, finally closing the door on the Tigers in the top of the tenth. "Does Rice get up this inning?" someone asked. Someone else laughed. And I knew what had to happen...
...accounts, the Ovechkins of Siberia were a remarkable family. After giving birth to the tenth of her eleven children, Ninel Ovechkin was awarded the Soviet title of "Hero Mother." After her husband died in 1984, she reared her seven sons and four daughters by herself in the city of Irkutsk, about 2,600 miles east of Moscow. The boys started a popular local jazz band called the Seven Simeons and recently performed in Japan...
About a dozen members of the Asian-American Association (AAA) will join students from more than 50 other schools next month at Cornell University for the tenth annual college conference on the contributions of Asians to American society...
...being a junior professor is a competitive business; less than one-tenth make it to the senior ranks. The key to the door, according to professors and administrators, is publication. Trying to juggle research, teaching, administrative duties and maternity leave, women faculty often fall short of Harvard's expectations for publication. The net result is that in the past 10 years only 14 more women have been added to the rolls of senior faculty at Harvard--of 383 tenured professors, only 27 are women...
...confusing. All those 5.4s and 5.8s are not simply totted up to determine the winner. Instead, each skater gets a technical and an artistic score from each judge. These marks are added together and indicate whether a particular judge rates a particular skater first, second or, say, tenth. If a judge is notably stingy, never giving a grade higher than 5.5, the lucky skater who gets that 5.5 would almost certainly win that judge's nod. If two skaters tie on a judge's card, the skater with the higher technical score wins the judge...