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...waning hours of a presidential campaign in which each side has been feverishly trading clichs, the Harvard football team decided on Saturday to switch an old clich...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tenacious D: Defense Wins Championships | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...activating an enzyme that is used in transmitting signals within nerve cells, which Benowitz referred to as the "master switch," inosine stimulates the remaining nerve cells to express genes that enable them to extend a new axon...

Author: By Marla B. Kaplan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scientists Optimistic About Stroke Research | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

Bliesath filled in for Tselentis again in the second game last night, although the circumstances surrounding the switch were far more somber. Tselentis suffered an epileptic seizure last Sunday, and watched the action from the sidelines...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Water Polo Tunes Up for Northerns; Wins 2 | 11/2/2000 | See Source »

...what can you do? The simple solution is to switch to over-the-counter decongestants and cough syrups that don't contain PPA. Finding out which ones do and which don't is as easy as reading the ingredients on the label. Finding alternative appetite suppressants may be trickier. But it's likely that drugmakers will move quickly to get substitutes on the market, even if they dispute the panel's conclusion, which, not surprisingly, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The PPA Blues | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...begin with an analogy. Suppose you set your thermostat to 70 degrees in the wintertime. This basically means that the thermometer tells the heater to switch on when the temperature dips below 70, and to turn off otherwise. This system, while perfectly successful at keeping the house at a reasonably consistent temperature, isn't especially efficient: The heater is forever being turned on and off, which is a waste of energy...

Author: By Daniel K. Biss, | Title: Fuzzy Math, Texas Style | 10/19/2000 | See Source »

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