Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Freshman pitcher John Birtwell (4-0) also impressed with a strong performance in game two of the twin-bill as he picked up the win. Sophomore hurler Mike Madden (3-1) earned the victory in the first game of the afternoon...
Harvard (29-20, 10-0 Ivy) will travel to Hanover with the title of Ivy League champion and a No. 4 ranking in the NCAA Division I Northeast Region. After its twin bill against the Big Green (10-26-1, 3-7), the Crimson will return to Cambridge and await the winner of the Patriot League tournament, which Harvard will host for a best-of-three play-in series...
...Crimson now advances to the postseason, where it will host an NCAA Play-In Series versus the Patriot League Champion beginning on Thursday, May 7. Before the playoffs begin, however, Harvard has a chance to complete the school's first ever undefeated conference season if it can sweep a twin billing from Dartmouth at Hanover on Saturday...
Until recently, research into behavioral genetics was dominated by psychiatrists and psychologists, who based their most compelling conclusions about the importance of genes on studies of identical twins. For example, psychologist Michael Bailey of Northwestern University famously demonstrated that if one identical twin is gay, there is about a 50% likelihood that the other will be too. Seven years ago, Hamer picked up where the twin studies left off, homing in on specific strips of DNA that appear to influence everything from mood to sexual orientation...
...exhibit their high-tech gizmo in a small, unadorned office in a brick, Industrial Age building in South Boston topped with Hollywood-style letters spelling out WORLD SHAVING HEADQUARTERS. John Terry, the elderly, thick-glassed British engineer whose team came up with the design for the successor to the twin-track Sensor, cradles the prototype between his thumb and forefinger as if it were a Honus Wagner. Terry, who has two degrees in metallurgy, talks about his invention as if it were the fax machine...