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Gwen Knapp Archive
Andrew Walter made a lot of mistakes, many of them understandable, in his first NFL start Sunday, but his biggest error came after the game, when he defended Randy Moss' weak afternoon. "I think Jerry Rice dropped a couple of balls,'' he said. "We can't get on a guy for that. He's going to make more plays than not.'' Where do we start? First, dropped passes weren't the problem. Moss halfway gave up on one ball, and didn't fight a defensive back on two more. He sauntered to the huddle several times, with all the enthusiasm of a shift worker punching a clock. He did drop a pass once, when he had to wait for a late throw from Walter and, as a result, absorbed a big hit from Browns free safety Brian Russell. It would be terribly unfair to blame that drop entirely on Moss ...
Scientists aglow over drug for radiation poisoning
With the Starship Enterprise seemingly doomed after losing warp power, Mr. Spock exposes himself to lethal radiation in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. After repairing the engines and saving the day, Spock dies. Evidently, the movie's writers didn't think scientists would find a drug to cure radiation poisoning by the late 23rd century. Yet local scientists may be on the verge of doing just that more than two centuries before the setting of the Star Trek film. Rice University's Jim Tour and his colleagues at two Houston health institutions have found a drug that, when given to mice before radiation exposure, is 5,000 times more effective than the best-available therapy for radiation injuries. Officials at the Department of Defense, seeking remedies for the radiation sickness that would follow a nuclear strike, were so taken by the research that they recently gave Tour a $540,000 grant and asked him to compress the next phase of testing into an almost unheard-of nine months.
I'm a party girl - Lindsay Lohan
LINDSAY Lohan's wild ways have sent her to rehab and jail, but she says she still finds it hard to resist the urge to party. But the actor said she has had time to reflect on her mistakes. "I have it in me to go, go, go," the 21-year-old actor told Harper's Bazaar magazine. "When I look back on this last year, it's like, what was I thinking? I've learned so much, though, like learning to live my life a different way . . . and I wasn't taking the time to feel my feelings." The Mean Girls star said she had had time to reflect on her mistakes. But Lohan, who was shown on a video taking a swig from a champagne bottle while ringing in the new year in Italy, said it was hard to resist a party. "I'm still young," she said.
Gwen Knapp Archive
Andrew Walter made a lot of mistakes, many of them understandable, in his first NFL start Sunday, but his biggest error came after the game, when he defended Randy Moss' weak afternoon. "I think Jerry Rice dropped a couple of balls,'' he said. "We can't get on a guy for that. He's going to make more plays than not.'' Where do we start? First, dropped passes weren't the problem. Moss halfway gave up on one ball, and didn't fight a defensive back on two more. He sauntered to the huddle several times, with all the enthusiasm of a shift worker punching a clock. He did drop a pass once, when he had to wait for a late throw from Walter and, as a result, absorbed a big hit from Browns free safety Brian Russell. It would be terribly unfair to blame that drop entirely on Moss ...
Scientists aglow over drug for radiation poisoning
With the Starship Enterprise seemingly doomed after losing warp power, Mr. Spock exposes himself to lethal radiation in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. After repairing the engines and saving the day, Spock dies. Evidently, the movie's writers didn't think scientists would find a drug to cure radiation poisoning by the late 23rd century. Yet local scientists may be on the verge of doing just that more than two centuries before the setting of the Star Trek film. Rice University's Jim Tour and his colleagues at two Houston health institutions have found a drug that, when given to mice before radiation exposure, is 5,000 times more effective than the best-available therapy for radiation injuries. Officials at the Department of Defense, seeking remedies for the radiation sickness that would follow a nuclear strike, were so taken by the research that they recently gave Tour a $540,000 grant and asked him to compress the next phase of testing into an almost unheard-of nine months.
I'm a party girl - Lindsay Lohan
LINDSAY Lohan's wild ways have sent her to rehab and jail, but she says she still finds it hard to resist the urge to party. But the actor said she has had time to reflect on her mistakes. "I have it in me to go, go, go," the 21-year-old actor told Harper's Bazaar magazine. "When I look back on this last year, it's like, what was I thinking? I've learned so much, though, like learning to live my life a different way . . . and I wasn't taking the time to feel my feelings." The Mean Girls star said she had had time to reflect on her mistakes. But Lohan, who was shown on a video taking a swig from a champagne bottle while ringing in the new year in Italy, said it was hard to resist a party. "I'm still young," she said.
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