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Arenas fuels himself on such insults. Last summer's Team U.S.A. snub offered fresh motivation. "It was predetermined," he says of the selection process: 14 players were flown to China, then Korea, for tournament tune-ups, although only 12 would make the World Championship roster. "They flew me all the way out there, and I thought I had a big shot. It was frustrating." Firing a dart at Team U.S.A. and Duke University coach Mike Krzyzewski, Arenas wrote on an nba.com blog, "I'll give up one NBA season to play against Duke." He swore to score 50 points against...
...Harvard men’s and women’s track teams both competed in tune-up meets this weekend, using the opportunities to prepare for upcoming competitions.For the men, things went as planned, as junior miler Christopher Green led the team to second place at the Harvard Select Meet.UConn won the event with 101 points, while the Crimson finished with 30 points, and Northeastern brought up the rear with 27. “We came in second, and it’s the first time we have beaten anyone all year, so that’s a plus...
...TIME: That sounds very much in tune with the [more left-leaning] Guardian readership. You're occupying much of the ground that has been occupied by Labour...
...itself. Our cognitive capacities, memories, dreams, etc., reflect distributed processes throughout the brain. The thousand conscious moments we have in a given day reflect one of our networks being "up for duty." When it finishes, the next one pops up, and the pipe organ--like device plays its tune all day long. What makes emergent human consciousness so vibrant is that the human pipe organ has lots of tunes to play, whereas the rat's has few. And the more we know, the richer the concert...
...attention, class. Pachter, whose clients include Microsoft, DaimlerChrysler and Merck, strides in with her tailored black pantsuit, black purse and black heels, looking serious. Are people suddenly ruder? she asks. The need for etiquette tune-ups has become direr as a result of changes in the business world, Pachter tells her students--more women, more international commerce and new technologies like cell phones, BlackBerrys and e-mail...