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...Oz’s content caters specifically to a college-age audience, but the conversational tone and juvenile literary devices would be appealing to your younger siblings as well. For example, I am still wondering why it was necessary to personify the body’s immune system as “Bob”: “If Bob is weak, you are ill more often, more seriously, and for more time,” Oz explains...

Author: By Lee ann W. Custer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College Weight Gain Is Avoidable | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

...hold a tune, but I don't have a lot of experience beyond singing in my car. I feel like I'm at least not tone-deaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 13, 2006 | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...born, Asher started having trouble feeding and was spotting his diapers with blood. The pediatrician decided he had an allergy to milk. Then, at 9 months, he couldn't crawl or sit up. The diagnosis this time was hypotonia, a vague term that basically means "poor muscle tone." With physical therapy, Asher walked at 17 months, but then a month later he caught a cold--and overnight lost half his vocabulary. Nobody could figure out what was going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: When Cells Stop Working | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...took the bench then for a duet with cellist Aram V. Demirjian ’08, who is also the Musical Director of the Bach Society Orchestra. The two played “Procession Through a Black Hole” by Calvin Hampton. The piece certainly had an astral tone throughout, with Demirjian displaying his abilities on both the low and high registers of his instrument, and Huff playing ambient swaths of sound not typically heard from a pipe organ. The piece segued into a brief arrangement of the overture from the Phantom of the Opera. The familiar themes were...

Author: By R. DEREK Wetzel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Midnight Organ Recital Pedals Through 'Potter' | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...Friday through Sunday at the Murr Center tennis courts, the Crimson had dominated Rice in both singles and doubles competition, while splitting matches with the University of Virginia in both singles and doubles play. The duo of senior Elsa O’Riain and sophomore Beier Ko set the tone for the Crimson in its doubles matches with Rice, defeating the Owls’ Tiffany Lee and Julie Chao 8-2. Harvard would win three out the four doubles matches it played against Rice, with the tandem of sophomore Catriona Stewart and freshman Elizabeth Brook suffering the lone doubles loss...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SPORTS BRIEF: Women’s tennis team rolls over Rice, fights for split with Virginia | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

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