Word: volleyers
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...What would be far more useful, however, is to know individual patients’ exact genomes. Why? First, it would allow physicians to screen patients’ entire genome for gene variants that predispose us for certain diseases—instead of ordering a volley of individual (read: expensive) tests for different disorders. Women who carry a gene variant known to increase breast cancer risk, for example, would be able to begin mammograms earlier in life. Second, it would allow physicians to personalize medical treatments. In a few cases, this is already possible. The breast cancer drug Tamoxifen is much...
...have only ourselves to blame for these sterling examples of modern minstrelsy—and we know it: What other reason for the self-righteous tone of our “outrage” over the Rutgers incident, and our silence on so many others? With each progressive volley against Imus’s comes an equally adamant “not I!” So either we let our outrage translate into a genuine turn towards higher-minded discourse, or we should stop all the preaching...
Faced with game point in the top doubles position, sophomore Beier Ko dived to the court to let the ball sail by, only inches out. Moments later, Ko’s partner, freshman Lena Litvak, nearly decapitated her Minutewoman opponent when given an easy volley...
...first singles, No. 107 Litvak tore through opponent Michele Spiess, winning 6-2, 6-0, putting Spiess away with a swinging forehand volley on match point...
...fans felt as worn out as the players.The match started out auspiciously for Harvard but proceeded with such riveting swings of momentum that the final turn—in Purdue’s favor—felt almost anticlimactic.That swing came in the form of a missed backhand volley by No. 3 Junior Dan Nguyen with the score knotted at 10-10 in a third set tiebreaker. The volley did not stretch Nguyen much—four feet from the net, at a seemingly comfortable height—but Nguyen underestimated, punching the ball into the net and then hobbling...