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...early doubles victories by Co-Captain Melissa McNabb and freshman Kate Roiter and the duo of freshman Kelly Granat and sophomore Kendra Harris swayed the momentum in Harvard's direction, momentum which Harvard would cling to like Saran Wrap around old chicken salad...

Author: By Jennifer M. Riordan, | Title: Netwomen Defeat Scrappy Penn, 5-4 | 4/10/1993 | See Source »

Biomimetic materials hold particular promise as coatings and wrappings that increase the body's tolerance of implanted devices. Eventually these substances may be put to work as nearly natural replacements for injured ligaments and arteries. University of Alabama molecular biophysicist Dan Urry, for example, has succeeded in turning a key segment of the protein elastin, present in many body tissues, into a material whose expansive and contractile properties closely approximate those of arterial walls. The material can be fashioned into tubes that feel, uncannily, like real blood vessels and also into sheets for encasing mechanical devices like pacemakers. Tests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Copying What Comes Naturally | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

...marry the role of Dil with the proper actor, Jordan says, "I needed a man with a very particular kind of femininity." Davidson, who was spotted by a casting assistant at a wrap party for Derek Jarman's gay-toned Edward II, had a sad, elfin, ambiguous, direct, unique screen charisma ideal for Dil. "The only thing nonactors have to work with is themselves," says the director. "What the movie camera sees is a person's spirit. You can't hide that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Read This Story! | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

...Harvard has four more games to wrap up, including tonight's contest against Dartmouth in Hangover, N.H., and tomorrow night's against Vermont in Burlington...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, | Title: Icemen Set for Dartmouth, Vermont | 2/26/1993 | See Source »

Sixteen future MBAs--seven of whom were graduates of the College--hit the ice, trying to wrap up the First Annual John McArthur Tournament. After three rounds of preliminaries extending back to Friday night, the Harvard Business School Blades bumped and ground their way to victory over Amos Tuck (Dartmouth's business school) in the finals of the hockey tourney...

Author: By Eben B. Goodale, | Title: A B-SCHOOL HOCKEY PARTY | 2/23/1993 | See Source »

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