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...Crimson (29-17) did find a way to score—but the Tigers (40-22) shut the door on the 2005 Harvard season with 20 hits in a commanding...
...Beyer didn't know those cadets or whether they knew her or whether they saw her as a laid-back swimmer type without a soldier's steel. Still, their comments cut straight through her and destroyed the frail truce she had made with West Point. "I just shut up," she says. "But I was so angry. 'What the hell am I doing here?' I asked myself. The attitude was, If you didn't grow up just dying to be in the military, you're worthless...
...preferences onto the Jury. In 1994, most critics we knew were sure the winner would be Red, the imposing climax to Krzysztof Kieslowki's "Three Colors" trilogy. Well, the critics may have seen all three films, but the Jury members hadn't. They and their President, Clint Eastwood, shut out Red and handed the Palme to a film the press savants hadn't even considered: Pulp Fiction. Proving again, that in Cannes, the more you know, the more you don't know...
...restrictions four years in a row. Although they failed each time, the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Mo., said last month it would wait on a planned $250 million expansion until state law explicitly protects embryonic-stem-cell research. "If you're scared you'll get shut down," says Leonard Zon, president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, "you think seriously about where you should...
...supplies that tumors need to grow. COX-2 also makes cancer cells more resistant to the body's immune response and more resistant to drugs. What would happen, scientists wondered, if you suppressed the COX-2 enzyme with an inhibitor such as Celebrex? "It makes sense that if you shut off the prostaglandin by turning off the COX-2, then the other things wouldn't happen," says Altorki. "The science is so strong, so persuasive...