Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think the key to the season is getting off to a good start," Levy said. "If we can win about six out of those first eight, we should be in real good shape...
...Harvard men's tennis team seems to be in good shape--at least for another four years. This optimistic prognosis can be confidently made because this year the Crimson welcomed freshman Philip Tseng, the fifteenth best boys' 18-under player in the United States...
...Mars is still another collection of wide-ranging essays that he calls "neurohistories," an anecdotal form that combines science, sympathy and old-fashioned storytelling. Where most clinicians study at arm's length a case of amnesia, say, or autism or agnosia (inability to recognize a word or a shape), the British-born physician tries to see through the eyes of the patient. "The study of disease," says Sacks, "demands the study of identity, the inner worlds that patients, under the spur of illness, create...
...Angels. After receiving degrees in physiology, biology and medicine from Oxford, Sacks headed to California in 1960 to study neurology and sample the wild life. He rode with the notorious bikers' club and lifted weights competitively. A 600-lb. hoist won him a state championship. Today he keeps in shape by swimming two hours a day. "It's like watching a porpoise," says his friend, New Yorker writer Lawrence Weschler. "He's incredibly powerful, incredibly graceful and incessant...
...uncle. His retirement is not of his own choosing. After a long stint in British intelligence, coinciding with some of the iciest years of the cold war, he has been bounced by his new boss as unsuited for the new world order: "I mean twenty-five years do rather shape the mind, don't they? I'd have thought you'd be far better off agreeing you'd served your stint, and time to find pastures new." Whatever disappointment Tim feels has been assuaged by the love of Emma Manzini, a beautiful, emotionally frail musician half...