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Beating Boston University and Boston College back-to-back wasn’t an aberration; it was a precursor of sthings to come...
...Green said. “Doubles was a little rusty...some kinks to work out. We’re going to work around with some combinations and see how things go.”The fall tennis season, which consists of several individual tournaments, is a precursor to the team season in the spring. The Crimson will to keep its momentum going this weekend at the Harvard Invitational. —Staff writer Jake I. Fisher can be reached at jifisher@fas.harvard.edu...
...outside, however, IVD sperm are not identical to normal sperm. "We think, for normal structure development, sperm needs the testes environment," says Nayernia. It takes 15 to 16 years in the testes before the primordial germ cells that morph into spermatogonia, or a primitive precursor of the germ cells, are able to mature into sperm cells that can successfully fertilize an egg. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
There was more to Fisher than those infamous words. The longtime Yale professor was a successful entrepreneur (he devised and marketed a precursor to the Rolodex), the author of a best-selling textbook on personal hygiene, one of the most prominent backers of Prohibition and a leading eugenicist (that is, he believed the human race could be improved through the weeding out of "degenerates...
...soon told my parents that he had gone as far as he could with Noah, that he was now focusing on younger children. (I have since heard of numerous children who also, as one parent I know put it, "flunked" Lovaas.) It was an early disappointment but only a precursor of so many to follow...