Super Seniors The Secret to NCAA Tournament Success?

If this year’s NCAA basketball tournaments look a little bigger—just a little older—your eyes aren’t fooling you. Call it the silver lining of the pandemic. Before the pandemic intervened, college students had five years to complete four seasons. For various reasons, among them injuries, one-time transfers or exemptions from competition, athletes have always been able …

Super Seniors The Secret to NCAA Tournament Success?

If this year’s NCAA basketball tournaments look a little bigger—just a little older—your eyes aren’t fooling you. Call it the silver lining of the pandemic. Before the pandemic intervened, college students had five years to complete four seasons. Athletes have always found ways to extend their eligibility for a variety of reasons, such as injuries, …

Until recently it was the ‘secret’ Omicron: Here’s what we know about it

As the Omicron coronavirus surge wanes, researchers keep an eye out for a highly contagious disease. Subvariant known as BA.2. While it doesn’t appear to have the capacity to drive a large wave of new infections, the variant could potentially slow the current decline in Covid cases and make treatments more difficult. Here’s what we …

What We Know About the ‘Secret’ BA.2 Omicron Variant

As the Omicron coronavirus surge wanes, researchers keep an eye out for a highly contagious disease. Subvariant known as BA.2. While it doesn’t appear to have the capacity to drive a large wave of new infections, the variant could potentially slow the current decline in Covid cases and make treatments more difficult. Here’s what we …

The Secret Story of the North’s Victory in the Civil War

To raise more money, Congress increased the tariff to unprecedented heights and levied taxes on “everything under the sun,” in the words of a Treasury official—including the nation’s first income tax. But what Lowenstein called the most revolutionary departure came in 1862, when the federal government began printing “dollars” that were not reversible in gold …

Deciphering Dickens’ Secret Notes to Himself, One Symbol at a Time

LONDON — For over a hundred years, scholars of Charles Dickens have tried to decipher a one-page letter written by the author with symbols, dots, and scribbles, but with little success. The letter remained unread for decades, sitting in a vault at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York until recent months, when two …

New Friends and Secret Keepers: They Make NBA Families Feel Welcome

Desireé LeSassier’s phone didn’t stop ringing. He had landed in Minneapolis about an hour ago on the Los Angeles Lakers’ plane, and people needed something. He apologized while returning to text messages and emails. A player called to ask if he could spare some time for himself on the field so he could shoot the …

Ashleigh Barty and Dylan Alcott’s Secret Weapon Is An Old Nike

Some of the highlights of this year’s Australian Open took place far from a tennis court and had nothing to do with a Serbian champion against the vaccine. Ben Crowe, a mindset and life coach with a mindset and life coach whose clients include women’s world No. 1, her nation’s champion hopeful Ashleigh Barty, and …