Word: 17th
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Early Friday afternoon, Peruvian strongman Jose Luis Noriega showed he could stand the heat much better than his authoritarian namesake, spearheading his 17th-ranked San Diego men's tennis team's 5-3 victory over 13th-ranked Harvard in the sweltering 90-degree bakery of Indian Wells, Calif...
...after Shyjan failed to produce, the rest of Fish's 1-2-3 bread-and-butter trio fell as well. Unranked J.R. Edwards knocked off Harvard's 17th-rated Mike Zimmerman at third singles to pull the Toreros within one match of the Crimson...
These grand institutions began during the 17th century with the spread all over Europe of the Arab taste for coffee. The oldest cafe in Paris is the Procope, which has been operating on the Rue de l'Ancienne Comedie ever since 1686. The Procope was nearly a century old when it claimed Benjamin Franklin and Voltaire among its customers. Later came the revolutionaries, Robespierre, Danton, Marat and even Napoleon...
Leading off for the 17th-ranked Toreros (21-5) will be the sixth-ranked singles player in the nation, Jose Luis Noriega, who is 27-4 in singles action this season and claimed the national championship in the fall with a win in the DuPont Intercollegiate National Clay Court Championship...
...system were laid out on the operating table, its condition would be rated critical and worsening. Though the country has physicians with unsurpassed training, its health-care delivery is among the most expensive, least efficient and least equitable in the developed world. Of the industrialized nations, the U.S. ranks 17th in life expectancy and an appalling 20th in preventing infant mortality. Yet the prospect of a national health-insurance system, long advocated as a solution, alarms many doctors. They see it as an intrusion by Big Government into their professional lives -- and, perhaps more important, as a threat to their...