Word: walks
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Still, it wasn't a walk in the park for Harvard...
Berkeley's Padian, on the other hand, contends that pterosaurs did not have to walk on their wings, but were agile two-legged runners. He also disagrees with the explanation University of Bristol paleontologist David Unwin offers for the long fifth toe that juts out from pterosaur hind limbs. Unwin believes this toe served as the attachment site for a second skinlike membrane that stretched between the animals' hind limbs. "Why else would the fifth toe have been so elongated?" he asks. Padian responds that Unwin's membrane does not make anatomical sense: among other things, it would have hampered...
...going to take care of them," says Lang, 56. "I've heard that around the country." She cited research from her university indicating hospitals that place a high priority on nurses have a 7.7% lower mortality rate than hospitals with no such priority. "Really experienced nurses know when they walk into the room if something is wrong with a patient," explains Lang. "Nurses are the glue that holds the whole hospital system together...
ATLANTA: Wade Boggs drew a bases-loaded walk in the top half of the tenth inning and John Wetteland recorded the final two outs as the New York Yankees scraped out a 8-6 victory, evening the series at two. Things began poorly for New York. Starter Kenny Rogers folded 'em in just the third inning, and the Yankees, stymied early by Braves pitcher Denny Neagle, found themselves trailing 6-0 after five. But the Yankees got three in the sixth, and reserve catcher Jim Leyritz tied it in the eighth with a three-run homer off Braves closer Mark...
Maximus occupies a squat one-story brick building that stands in the shadows of the Jefferson Towers apartment complex, a 15-minute walk from the Quad...