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...want to [kick the field goal] in 1.3 seconds or less and with the high snap I'm guessing it was closer to 1.5," Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. "If it gets over 1.3 seconds it has a pretty good chance of being blocked. It really came down to one special teams miscue...
...high snap from freshman deep-snapper Frank Volpe allowed 6'5" Columbia defensive end Marcellus Wiley to block the kick. But the Crimson special teams still had a chance to score. The Columbia player who recovered the block--junior defensive back Roy Hanks--took the ball on the five yard line and ran back into the endzone, trying to gain yardage by reversing his field. Several would-be Harvard tacklers had the opportunity to tackle Hanks for a safety, but each came up empty-handed as Hanks advanced the ball to the Columbia 27-yard line...
Harvard's kick coverage and return game were adequate, although junior punt returner Colby Skelton was fortunate enough to recover both of his second-half fumbles...
Swallowing the first capsule, I wondered how exactly it would kick in. Within minutes my mouth dried up, as if I had swallowed a handful of cotton balls. Water and chewing gum soon solved that problem. Then halfway through Letterman, around the time of my nightly kitchen crawl, something peculiar happened. I zoomed in on a bowl of green pippin apples, fixating on their aesthetic beauty more than their sweet taste. I stared at them intensely, then decided I wasn't hungry after all. Instead, I sipped some cranberry juice and somehow felt satisfied...
...brain stem called the locus ceruleus, which is rich in cells that release the neurotransmitter norepinephrine, the trigger for human fight-or-flight response. This primal alarm system has obvious survival value--useful for fleeing man-eating tigers and such. But in patients with panic disorder, it appears to kick in at too low a threshold...