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...order to get a better “feel” for the baseball and also to enhance the break of certain pitches, especially the curveball. The use of pine tar is especially advantageous on colder nights since the stickiness helps duplicate the release of the ball under normal circumstances. “Smudgegate,” as it is being called in the media, is not the first incident involving pitchers and pine tar. The most recent of these incidents took place in June 2005, when Los Angeles Angels pitcher Brendan Donnelly was ejected from a game and suspended...
...truth is my new address is much more likely to be bombed. This morning as I woke up, the sound of an explosion reached my bedroom window, which is mostly covered by a stack of sandbags to guard against blasts. Then another. I'm told that's normal, just the sound of morning rush hour around here...
...easy to pin specific aspects of the report on Menand. After all, he is, along with Simmons, one of the members of the committee whose academic and non-academic work is more directly involved in educational policy. However, Menand claims no superiority.“I just have a normal historian’s interest in it [educational policy]” says Menand. “It’s fun given what I know as a historian...to be on this committee and see what the next phase is going to look like.”LEARNING...
Mondraty and Sachdev, professor of neuropsychiatry at the University of New South Wales, saw the chance to make a small breakthrough in exploring why it is that the anorexic sees on her frame fat that isn't there. It's a puzzling, highly specific delusion: anorexic women can recognize normal weight in others and identify other anorexics as too thin, but something goes awry when they look at themselves...
Learning more about what that something is was the goal of the researchers, who presented their findings at the 6th International Congress of Neuropsychiatry in Sydney last month. They took photos of the 20 female participants - 10 anorexics and 10 controls of normal weight - all of whom were dressed in vest and shorts. Though faces in the pictures were deliberately made blurry, the women were told whether they were about to see others or themselves while in the MRI scanner...