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...Harvard men’s lacrosse team ended its regular season on Saturday the way it started its campaign over two months ago in its 9-6 upset of then-No. 7 Duke—with a bang...
...after her name,” said Rebekah Kharrazi, senior captain of the Radcliffe lightweight team. “She’s been such a force in rowing, I think it’s definitely something that should have been awarded to her a long time ago.” Coming off a win against then-No. 2 Princeton, the No. 2 varsity eight took the lead from No. 7 MIT from the start, and continued to dominate the event as they passed the halfway mark. Beating MIT by a little over 21 seconds, Radcliffe cruised to the line...
...enforcement, compared with just 15 in the 1990s, and the pace is accelerating. Most of those have been uncovered through human intelligence, since there are no currently available technical means to reliably detect tunnels. The Department of Homeland Security started spending research money on detection technologies two years ago. But even the most promising ones - primarily adapted from mining and petroleum exploration industries - are several years from proving reliable. "We see this as one of those frontier threat areas that have to be mitigated but it is a very, very difficult problem area," says Rick Miller, a leading expert...
...south side. Inside the hospital, her 38-year-old husband, a taxi driver and father of their three kids, lies in a bed, unconscious and barely alive, she says, battling what doctors have told Hernandez may well be swine flu - but which was originally misdiagnosed. More than two weeks ago, her husband developed a severe cough and sore throat; and since those were the final days of Mexico's flu season, doctors gave him common influenza medicine. When he only got worse, he was admitted to a standard hospital for pneumonia treatment...
...most essential businesses and government services Friday through Tuesday, the nation's long Cinco de Mayo holiday weekend. On Thursday, for example, the government reported that the daily number of new suspected cases is now about a fifth of what it was less than a week ago. That "makes us optimistic," said Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova. "We had expected geometric or even exponential growth. So we think we're on the right track." (See photos of the swine flu hitting Mexico...