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...again Harvard will lean on its big hitters to carry the load. Weissbourd is currently sixth in the nation with 5.28 kills per set, as well as third in the country in service aces and tenth with 1.40 blocks per set. The rookie Jones is second on the team with 3.06 kills per set, and Weintraub is 13th in the nation in assisting his attackers with...
...affects physical performance, and how the body responds to artificially sweetened drinks. The body may undergo a kind of metabolic letdown in anticipation of a sugar rush that never comes, which could affect performance. "In some ways, the body's reaction is to the 'promise' of an incoming carbohydrate load, so one wonders what happens when that promise is not fulfilled," says Williams...
Nintendo claims it improved on the DS's Internet browser, but the DSi didn't have enough memory to load my Gmail page. As a game player, the DSi is compatible with Nintendo's popular library of DS cartridges. A few DSi-specific games can be wirelessly downloaded from an online store, but they were mostly disappointing. For example, WarioWare: Snapped! has you move in response to onscreen cues, but the motion-detecting game required a very well-lit room and still behaved erratically. Nintendo will add more games over time, and motion detection could someday make...
...been elected to Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, Harvard’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. The undergraduate honor society, whose stated goal is to encourage “scholarship, friendship, and cultural interests,” admits students based on factors such as the variety of their course loads and the depth of their intellectual endeavors. The application process includes submitting two letters of recommendation, which the society recommends be written by faculty members at the University. The inducted students said that they were very pleased with their prestigious achievement. “I’m extremely honored...
...long-range missiles or on bomber bases. Most long-range missiles are capable of carrying multiple, independently targeted warheads, and long-range bombers rarely fly with full payloads. So the "operationally deployed warhead" measure doesn't count the stockpile of warheads that both the U.S. and Russia could load onto existing missiles and bombers. In deterrence theory, this raises the possibility of one side or the other achieving a "breakout capacity," meaning that it could quickly and quietly beef up its arsenal until it became capable of launching a devastating "first strike." First-strike capability is dangerous because...