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...filling out those tournament brackets for March Madness—basketball being a team that is permitted to participate in the norms of college athletics—don’t you pick the Ivy entry to win in at least the first round, regardless of seed...
...After we got rolling, we discussed what we had just heard and decided that it would be better to devise a plan of our own: So it was decided that we would split the "brainstorming" responsibilities. Hotch would do the legwork and Paul would put up the $40,000 seed money. By the time we were on the open road, traveling at Newman's usual 90 mph pace, we both felt pretty good about the afternoon, having saved...
...while, in the 1980s, he was the literary world's unofficial No. 1 seed, the guy to beat. But after his respectfully received The Information in 1995, Amis went on an extended excursion into journalism, criticism, memoir, short stories and genre fiction. Doubts crept through the world of letters. Shots were taken, publicly, by the likes of Julian Barnes and A.S. Byatt. People found his immense talent obtrusive and, frankly, kind of irritating. Now Amis' first big novel in eight years, Yellow Dog (Miramax Books; 340 pages), has arrived in the U.S., still charred and smoking from vicious attacks...
NASA is also making concerted efforts to prevent “forward contamination,” in which we would be the evil alien invaders who seed other planets with Earth bugs. NASA crashed the Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter last month in an effort to avoid the remote possibility that the spacecraft would one day smash into Europa and cause an unforgivable planetary pandemic on that watery moon. Three new spacecraft are headed for landings on Mars in the next couple of months, and their missions are all focused on the search for current life, past life and conditions conducive...
...singles, junior Alexis Martire advanced to the Sweet 16, defeating St. John’s Kristina Bothova and Penn’s Rachel Shweky in two sets each before falling to the tournament’s third seed, William and Mary’s Megan Muth, 6-2, 7-5 on Sunday afternoon...