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Text-based fundraising is all about immediacy. You don't need to wait until you get home and turn on the computer. Simply enter a five- or six-digit code into your cell phone, along with a single word in the body of the text, such as "Haiti." You don't even need to plug in your credit-card info - the donation amount is simply added to your next phone bill. It's all so quick and convenient, you can give in the moment. There's no chance of you forgetting to do it later. (See pictures of the Haiti...
Steroids were added to baseball's banned-substance roster in 1991, but no testing was mandated. Fans and officials largely turned a blind eye, even as players' bodies swelled along with their achievements. In 1999, even after McGwire had copped to taking androstenedione - or "andro," an over-the-counter precursor to testosterone later banned by the FDA - Senator Edward Kennedy called the slugger and his rival Sosa the "home-run kings for working families in America." A year later, the suggestion in the New York Times that up to 40% of major league players had taken steroids was largely...
...look further afield. At one point the concert was to be held at the U.N. office in Geneva, but that, too, was cancelled, leading him to search in the Middle East. Eventually, his work took him to China, where he believes he was destined to hold the concert all along. "Things happen for a reason," he says...
Sophomore Brogan Berry led three Harvard players in double figures with 15 points along with a team-high eight assists. Junior Emma Markley and freshman Victoria Lippert each added 13 points...
...League in overall scoring, but it certainly had its best defensive effort of the season against the Highlanders. NJIT’s 53 points was the lowest total allowed all season, and Harvard held the Highlanders to 36% from the field overall and added nine blocked shots along with eight steals...