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Last night, however, Shewchuk, Botterill, and Springer were back in the lineup together for the first time in almost three weeks, and Harvard should have performed better...
However, the problem was more than just a defensive collapse. Harvard played almost the entire game with only two lines, and the top line of Shewchuk, Botterill, and Francisco looked sluggish in overtime...
Away with the Canadian National team, neither Shewchuk nor Botterill had practiced with the rest of the team for almost two weeks before their return Monday, and it showed...
...Salvador, 80,000 people--almost all of which are young women--work in sweatshops. They are paid pennies per hour. They travel for hours to get to the factory. They work from 6:45 a.m. until at least 8 p.m. They work six days a week, 60 hours a week. They are allowed one bathroom break each morning and another at night. They are denied clean drinking water and clean air. They face forced overtime virtually everyday. They are forced to take birth control pills and pregnancy tests and are fired if they become pregnant. They are fired for saying...
...everyone agrees. The Food and Drug Administration currently exercises almost total control over the information flow from clinical trials, and while biotech companies certainly don't want their human research subjects to die, they do want to keep a tight lid on their proprietary research. "This is a highly commercial undertaking," says TIME correspondent Dick Thompson, "and most of the tests to date have failed." Still, companies that do hit on the right combination are spinning so much genetic straw into pure gold, and they don't want their competitors learning Rumplestiltskin's secrets on their dime...