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Desman Stephens had played only a handful of snaps to this point, mostly in mop-up duty, but as the freshman linebacker peered over the line of scrimmage at Penn State’s offense Saturday, he could see the third-down play unfolding in his head.

In another enclosure, Mozart, a three-legged gray fox with no spleen, peered warily from a tunnel of corrugated tubing.

I felt like the estrogen I put under my tongue every day was taking its sweet time while I was checking my chest every day, just as Jeff Goldblum’s Dr. Brundle in The Fly peered in the mirror to assess the changes to his skin.

He opened its door and peered inside.

Instead, Vidale, who was director of the Southern California Earthquake Center at USC from 2017 to 2018, peered into the planet by tracking seismic waves from quakes occurring off the lower tip of South America.