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...spot, attracting attention in one of Trinity’s new courts with a close 10-8 loss against eighth-ranked junior Nicholas Kyme in the first game. Kyme won the next two games 9-6, 9-1, as Karlen fell 3-0 for the match. Bantam squash enthusiasts weren’t thrilled with Karlen, loudly criticizing every let he called while cheering for the hometown favorite...
...match-up against a Bantam opponent, freshman Neeta Lal, who played at the No. 10 spot for the Crimson, defeated Trinity No. 8 Meridy Vollmer...
...coaches refused to lighten up in the vacation-type surroundings, cutting off the air-conditioning for practices and yoga sessions in preparation for the much-anticipated Trinity match on Feb. 2. The Bantam lineup features several players from warm climates, and their court is notoriously...
...prospect of another difficult read might make readers wary of taking on the University of Cambridge physicist's latest work, The Universe in a Nutshell (Bantam; 216 pages; $35). That would be a loss. Hawking takes on plenty of intimidating topics in Nutshell, including space-time geometry, quantum mechanics and the ominously titled M-theory. But he does it in a much more accessible way this time, using plenty of comprehensible analogies and no small amount of humor, often self-deprecating. Example: "Newton occupied the Lucasian chair at Cambridge that I now hold, though it wasn't electrically operated...
...Sisters Ada and Rosella are part. Since 1986, University of Kentucky scientist David Snowdon has been studying 678 School Sisters--painstakingly researching their personal and medical histories, testing them for cognitive function and even dissecting their brains after death. Over the years, as he explains in Aging with Grace (Bantam; $24.95), a moving, intensely personal account of his research that arrives in bookstores this week, Snowdon and his colleagues have teased out a series of intriguing--and quite revealing--links between lifestyle and Alzheimer...