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...that wasn’t too serious a setback, because Prasse-Freeman wanted mostly to talk to Buddhist monks and NGO workers in Thailand who would help him answer the religious and political questions...
...slowly losing oxygen, he utilizes scientific principles and the contents of his pockets to discover where he is and how he got there. "By my calculations, the rate of torsion on my pendulum indicates my latitude to be roughly 37 degrees - 49 degrees North," is a typical insight. One setback after another must be overcome with ingenuity. Naturally, as a Jason Shiga book, the man's story proves to be far from predictable. "Fleep" has the kind of ingenious plot that would be worthy of Arthur Conan Doyle...
...Crimson (12-7, 7-1 Ivy) rebounded from a 3-1 setback to Penn on Friday—its first league loss of the season—to sweep past Princeton 3-0 and stay atop the Ivy standings...
Harvard hasn’t lost since an 11-3 setback to No. 13 UC-Santa Barbara and No. 5 USC on Oct. 6. The Crimson’s strong CWPA finish secured the No. 2 seed in the Northern Division playoffs in two weeks...
...latest setback for the field of gene therapy, researchers halted trials of a promising program after a French toddler developed a leukemia-like disease that has never before been seen. the child, who was born with an often fatal genetic condition called severe combined immunodeficiency (commonly referred to as "bubble boy" disease), had apparently been cured twoyears ago when doctors injected him with cells containing the missing normal gene. Butgene therapists suspect the replacement gene may have had an unintended effect: disrupting the normal workings of a different, anticancer gene...