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...with all manner of inadequacies and harassments. Just why China should have put on such an unseemly display for all the world to see was a consuming puzzle, but at least the International Olympic Committee had cause for relief. Two years ago this month, Olympics mandarins came within a whisker of awarding the 2000 Summer Games to Beijing, only in the end to name Sydney, Australia, instead...
...yard individual medley, junior Greta Steffenson swam an incredibly close race against Cornell freshman Kristin Arioli. Steffenson held on to win the race--a time of 4:40.28--with Arioli finishing just a whisker behind, in a time...
What should a lioness searching for a mate look for? If she wants a partner with robust genes, she might do well to check out the pattern of whisker spots on her suitor's face. So say a pair of University of Minnesota researchers in a report in the journal Nature. After examining whisker patterns on 920 lions, they concluded that males whose black dots in the topmost row of whiskers line up evenly tended to have longer lives than lions whose spots are arranged in a more irregular fashion...
...findings buttress a new biological theory proposing that all sorts of small variations in symmetrical features, such as fish fins and birds' forked tails, are signals of genetic stress. For some unexplained reason, lionesses don't fit the theory -- in fact, females with uneven whisker spots lived longer...
...team came within a whisker of getting an NCAA bid, an unheard of achievement for a Harvard team...