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While the Crimson men say they treat each game with equal importance, Saturday’s face-off with a long-time nemesis will demand a distinct effort from all fronts. Harvard defenseman will look to control dangerous attackers Colin Greening and Riley Nash, who was voted preseason All-ECAC. Cornell’s Ben Scrivens, among the nation’s best goaltenders, is also bound to be a strong force between the pipes...
...Fittingly, the initial discovery of the potentially neurotoxic effect of anesthesia occurred by accident. In the 1990s, scientists discovered that the brain cells of patients in the midst of a stroke were flooded with calcium. Doctors wishing to treat these patients hypothesized that blocking the receptor that enables calcium to enter cells could protect stroke patients from severe brain damage. But in the course of researching this possibility, they found that switching off the receptor in a healthy brain cell led to the death of that cell - an unexpected and troubling result, given that many common anesthetics block the same...
...getting a clearer picture of its victims - who is most vulnerable to H1N1, how the most severe cases progress and which risk factors tend to contribute to life-threatening disease. That data is now helping public-health officials identify some critical H1N1 trends, which may enable them to treat patients more effectively and hopefully control the disease as it peaks in the coming months...
...example, Harvard Crimson editors used to trick-or-treat at the homes of deans and administrators each Halloween and compare their candy offerings, according to Professor of Folklore and Mythology Stephen A. Mitchell and The Crimson’s archives. But the last record of Crimson trick-or-treating...
...government. Only voting in well-publicized elections that generate table chatter indicates that we only vote when it is popular to do so. But elections aren’t like the Olympics or the World Cup, and it’s demeaning to our system of government to treat them on the same level as these events...