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...locker room and put on my pads and play in front of all those people that represent Harvard University, that means the world to me. I'm going to miss acting silly in the locker room, guys wrestling in the locker room, practicing in sub-zero temperature and little things like that. Professional football is great, but I'll totally miss the atmosphere of the college game...
...peckii needs excellent vision in order to prevent its own extinction. "Sex pheromones from females probably help males locate the general neighborhood of a wasp," says Ehmer. But the male, who lives less than 6 hrs. after taking flight, must rely on his eyesight to zero in quickly on that wasp and its female parasite so he can perpetuate his species before he expires...
...decline in workplace homicides can be credited in part to tough initiatives by companies after a string of postal-worker shootings in the early '90s. Most of these programs involve zero tolerance for threats or violence, require conflict resolution among colleagues and offer tips on what workers should do if they're threatened or attacked. Meanwhile, at gas stations and other retail businesses, such security measures as silent alarms, buzzer locks and bulletproof glass have contributed to a 46% drop in robbery homicides over the past five years...
Keith Jarrett specializes in surprises. His youthful stints with the bands of Miles Davis and Charles Lloyd put him at ground zero of the jazz-rock fusion movement. Then, in the 1970s, he unplugged his keyboards and started giving the totally improvised, all-acoustic solo concerts that established him as the most individual (and successful) jazz pianist of his generation. The '80s saw him recording arrestingly fresh versions of pop ballads with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette--as well as Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier on piano and harpsichord...
...weeks of travel throughout China. A born storyteller, he often recalled his childhood in a tiny village northwest of Beijing. Like most Chinese peasants of that era, Zhenbing's parents were too poor to buy coal. Instead, in a climate like Boston's, where winter temperatures often plunged below zero, they burned dried leaves to heat their mud hut. Their home's inside walls were often white with frost from November to April...