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...Brown course has three loops with a little quarter mile hitch at the end. Jones, Durrette. Campbell and Keefe for Harvard and Thomas for Brown were the early leaders in the race for the first loop and a half, with Rojas running behind. "I was running kind of slow to loosen up," he said. "We had a rough week of practice...
...left-handed to righthanded molecules in a common amino acid called isoleucine, and he was able to estimate the age of fossils from that ratio. What is more, his tests required only a tiny sampling of material and could be completed in a few hours. There is one serious hitch, he reports in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Because the rate at which amino acids change their configuration varies significantly with heat, the temperature history of the specimen must be taken into account. Still, if an object has been sheltered in a cave or buried in the ocean floor, that...
...times, even when sunning beside the hotel's private pool. For Bob Haideman and Herb Klein and Clark MacGregor, paper shredders were installed at the Doral, and the hotel lobby was closed to conventioneers. It was the same lobby where in July, anyone could come and go, anyone could hitch a ride to Convention Hall, anyone could mingle with McGovern staff members or catch a glimpse of the candidate, and where 400 SDS members could sit in protest for six hours until McGovern himself came down to meet with them...
...Fiedler, Aaron in Titus Andronicus and Othello represent "the paranoia about blacks which Shakespeare shared with the pit," that is, the commoners in the audience. Now Shakespeare and his audience could have spent a lifetime without seeing a black. Only in Hitch cock or Pinter can one develop paranoia over an unseen "stranger." In Othello, black and white are not racist, but imagistic counters. It is Othello who is white in his innocent gullibility and Iago who is black in his "motiveless malignity." Both men are complementary halves, like day and night...
...genre would accept less. Yet the best parts of Hone's espionage novel have nothing to do with espionage. His hero, far from being the traditional gun-and-karate spy, is a mournful reincarnation of the wandering Irishman, someone whose way of escaping from Egypt is to hitch a ride on a Land Rover with an Anglican clergyman who is setting off with beagle-like optimism to expand the parish in the Saharan sands around Tobruk...