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...Lake City, Jacksonville, and Greensboro.While it’s technically true that the Big Dance gets underway with a contest in Dayton between the two worst teams to make the field, we’re going to cast that interjection aside since that game is kind of like the tree falling in the wilderness.That leaves us one month, 28 days, from the opening tip of March Madness. And that leaves 26 days between this Saturday night and that first NCAA contest.Why is this pedantic babble important?Well, because by Saturday night, Penn should have the bow tacked onto the gift...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: KING JAMES BIBLE: Be Aware, Penn’s Easy Road to Big Dance Spells Disaster | 2/16/2006 | See Source »

...pressure, according to the study released last month. But Hollenberg said most cocoa products on the market forsake high levels of the healthy antioxidant during processing in order to enhance their sweetness. “Flavonols are bitter,” he said. “Virtually every cocoa tree in the world makes a high-flavonol cocoa, but human beings have intervened to make [cocoa] taste better and they’ve gotten rid of the flavonols.” Confectionery giant Mars, a multinational corporation that produces a slew of candies including...

Author: By Alexander N. Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cocoa Could Cut Blood Pressure | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...Cheney told Hume in the Vice President's Ceremonial Office, next to the White House in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, that he "had a beer at lunch" during a barbecue under an ancient oak tree on the ranch. "After lunch we take a break, go back to ranch headquarters," he said. "Then we took about an hour-long tour of ranch, with a ranch hand driving the vehicle, looking at game. We didn't go back into the field to hunt quail until about, oh, sometime after 3:00 p.m. The five of us who were in that party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheney Speaks: The VP Responds to Critics | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...Xu’s comments echo a view that the HCS student leaders seem to have grasped fully: Datamatch is not exactly serious business. HCS President Steven M. Melendez ’07 indicated that those looking for real love through an algorithm may be barking up the wrong tree. He said that Datamatch is simply a “fun activity” that offers the bonus of a bona fide compatibility comparison with fellow undergraduates. HCS Project Director Grant W. Dasher ’09 offered some insight into the juiciest bit of the program: those...

Author: By Nicholas A. Ciani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Love at First Byte | 2/14/2006 | See Source »

...supposed to guide him through the activity--a lesson in colors, say, or shapes--from a device connected to the TV. Chicco, meanwhile, has developed a bilingual videophone for tots 18 months and older. When a child flips a switch on the keypad, objects (a duck, a tree) appear on the screen, and a voice, speaking in Spanish and English over a cordless handset, identifies what's on display. Price $40 each Available Fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play's the Thing | 2/13/2006 | See Source »

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