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Quincy House elected to spend its grant to purchase a new elliptical machine, stationary bicycle, treadmill and universal weight machine. The gym, rewired to accommodate the increased electrical demands of the new equipment, also boasts new blue carpeting and freshly painted walls...

Author: By Elena Sorokin and Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Renovated Quincy Gym Opens | 2/5/2004 | See Source »

...tons Weight of a dead sperm whale that exploded on a street in Tainan City, Taiwan, as it was being trucked to a research center. A gas buildup in its intestines caused the rupture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

...pounds Weight of nuclear and missile components shipped to the U.S. by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as part of his pledge to stop developing weapons of mass destruction

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

Like other games that lend themselves to statistical reduction, cricket can be brutally efficient in judging its players across the years. There?s usually no need to look beyond the weight of runs scored and wickets taken to assess a player?s proper place in the cricketing pantheon. But averages speak of substance rather than style. A talented showman and a dour plodder can be mediocrities on the numbers grid, although the first might have soared as often as he flopped, while the second never got off the ground. David Hookes, who died on Jan. 19, was not a cricket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forever Young | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

Want to lose weight using ephedra? You can't. Bush's FDA has banned the over-the-counter supplement. Steroids? You heard the Nanny in Chief. And if you're a scientist researching a touchy subject, be prepared to feel the breath of Big Government down the back of your white coat. Early on in his Administration, the President--not scientists or patients--decided exactly how far federally funded research into stem cells could go. Cloning technologies? Forget about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nanny in Chief | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

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