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...Brenda Taylor was unbeatable on the day, winning the event in a new school-record time of 13.73 seconds, breaking her old record...
...athlete as consistent and versatile as Taylor, a typical meet this season has consisted of winning two or three events, while possibly breaking a school record along...
Taylor owns school records in the 400-meter hurdles, the 55-meter hurdles, and the 60-meter hurdles. As in Saturday's meet, Taylor set the latter record while running against her sister this January...
Unfortunately, we are stymied by the fact that our knowledge about life must, at least for now, be limited to studies of a single experiment on Earth. All earthly life shares a remarkably complex set of biochemical features, but does this commonality record the only conceivable building blocks for any entity that we would call "alive"? Or do all earthly creatures share these features only because we have inherited these properties from a common ancestor that used one configuration among a million alternatives unknown to us but quite conceivable and workable? Indeed, would we, in our carbon-based parochialism, even...
...final test phase before its anticipated introduction into Marine fleets. This is hardly the first time the Osprey has been in the spotlight. At $44 million apiece - some reports say $60 million - the planes were considered a risky investment by many. Some critics cited shaky safety records as reason enough to sideline the project: Before Saturday night, the craft's record included one fatal and one nonfatal crash during test flights. This record, though, was considered unremarkable; more often it was the program's cost that came under attack...