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Momentum firmly and permanently shifted to the Cornell side come the third period. Sensing victory, the Big Red went into a defensive mode and Harvard was left watching the final seconds of its seasons tick away...
Projects during the semester will also require students to build models of some earlier time-keeping instruments to learn what makes them tick...
...cappella at Harvard, the existence of a veritable a cappella culture, has fascinated me since I got here. So I started to dig. I scourged the depths of the a cappella world in search of some explanation to the peculiar phenomenon, some understanding of what makes a cappella tick. Eventually I found out about the complexity of scripting an a cappella performance, the countless hours spent on things like choreography and "patter." I found out about the dual role of the annual Freshman Jam as both an initiation of a new audience and a way for all the groups...
...that one," a squeaky voice interrupts. It's Ross Perot. It's what he has shouted out even before one of the citizen-questioners in San Diego can complete her question to Bob Dole about the economy. "Let's just take that one apart and see what makes it tick...
Often packed into the bodies of ticks, below, no bigger than the head of a pin are bacteria that cause flu-like symptoms in 100,000 Americans each year. The best-known illness is Lyme disease, which, left untreated, can lead to arthritis, paralysis of facial nerves and meningitis. Antibiotics are the standard treatment. Another tick-borne disease, human granulocytic ehrlichiosis, caused by a particularly aggressive bacterium identified in 1994, can result in death if tetracycline treatment does not start early enough. Trials of a preliminary vaccine for Lyme disease began in 1992, and will end later this year...