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...Crimson reigned victorious in the distance races as well. Harvard took the top two spots of the 400 medley relay, with freshman Dan Furman anchoring the back half of the race. Junior Sam Wollner headed a 1-2-3 finish in the 1,000 freestyle, coming in at 9:21.67, while freshman Alex Meyer led another sweep in the 500 freestyle...
...two’ed the first event, which is a relay, and we one-two-three’ed in the 1,000 free, so we did pretty well in distance,” Meyer said. “That’s usually a strong point...
...class that relays together stays together. Or so it appeared Friday evening, when the Class of 2007 led the Harvard women’s swimming and diving team (6-1, 5-0 Ivy) to a 161-74 trouncing of the University of New Hampshire (4-5) in the final home meet of the season. The seniors turned in impressive individual performances throughout the meet but saved their best for the last event, an exhibition 200-yard freestyle relay. Eight Crimson seniors, instead of the usual four, each swam a 25-yard leg of the relay to help the squad...
...time. Neuroscientists have long known that consciousness depends on certain frequencies of oscillation in the electroencephalograph (EEG). These brain waves consist of loops of activation between the cortex (the wrinkled surface of the brain) and the thalamus (the cluster of hubs at the center that serve as input-output relay stations). Large, slow, regular waves signal a coma, anesthesia or a dreamless sleep; smaller, faster, spikier ones correspond to being awake and alert. These waves are not like the useless hum from a noisy appliance but may allow consciousness to do its job in the brain. They may bind...
Danger is just one way that the linguistics industry--interpreters who relay live chat and translators who process documents--has changed dramatically. More benignly, the Web and the global economy have led to 7.5% annual growth in the market, now pegged as a $9.4 billion business, according to research group Common Sense Advisory. While much of that is due to the military, there has been renewed growth elsewhere. "Firms from Starbucks to McDonald's now have to communicate and market to customers in dozens of different languages," says Common Sense Advisory president Don DePalma...