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Sophomore Katie Zacarian, a second team All-Ivy selection last year, held off New Hampshire’s attack with 15 saves, including impressive back-to-back saves in the first half of the game. Zacarian continues to demonstrate her prowess by foiling one-on-one plays, coming out of goal at the right times, and stopping shots from high flicks to drives across the circle...
...Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Va., made headlines by announcing that it had created embryos (from donated sperm and eggs) expressly to extract their stem cells. A few days later, a Massachusetts biotech firm, Advanced Cell Technology, disclosed that it was trying to create embryos using human-cloning techniques. The back-to-back developments surprised opponents and supporters alike, and brought new calls for a ban on all embryonic stem-cell research...
Since he arrived at Colgate in 1992, the Colgate football team overcame a 0-11 record in 1995 to make back-to-back appearances in the NCAA 1-AA playoffs and the men’s basketball team has twice qualified for the NCAA Tournament...
...there was little surprise that Suzuki won the pot, it was because, just over a quarter of the way through his first major league season, there is little surprise about anything he does. Suzuki is named American League Rookie of the Month for April? Ho-hum. Suzuki has back-to-back single-double-triple games? Big whoop. Suzuki rifles a one-hopper from the right-field wall to home plate? Yawn. Suzuki is on pace to break George Sisler's 81-year-old record of 257 hits in a season? Zzzzzzzz. Suzuki imprisons Saddam Hussein, discovers a cure...
...games later, the missed chance at back-to-back titles was the least of Harvard's problems. After falling to Hartford and lowly Columbia in its final two games of the year, Harvard's hopes at making the postseason appeared shot...