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...York to witness the men’s hockey team’s own version of “The Game.” Namely, I had never driven the six hours to Ithaca, New York, home of the Cornell Big Red and allegedly, the most raucous fan base in ECAC hockey.This year presented me with a special opportunity, because going to Cornell would enable me to attend two versions of “The Game” in less than 24 hours—provided that my partner, Courtney Skinner ’10, and I were willing...
...vote early for Martin in similar numbers. John McCain and Sarah Palin both returned to Georgia to campaign for Chambliss after winning the state; Obama just taped a radio ad for Martin, who had to rely on surrogates like Ludacris and REM's Michael Stipe to energize his base down the stretch. Chambliss vacuumed money from big donors as well as the Republican Party and the National Rifle Association; Martin did better with small donors and attracted a swarm of labor-union volunteers, but he's clearly swimming upstream...
...more liberal Barack Obama is about to replace Chávez's conservative archenemy, George W. Bush. "Chávez is envisioning tougher times ahead," says John Walsh, a Venezuela expert at the Washington Office on Latin America, an independent think tank. "In order to gin up his base, he decided he better do this now rather than later, while he can still muster a majority of the vote. He knows that time may not be on his side...
...another person who is infected, each new student who is vaccinated will decrease the chances of infection for the entire community. On a large enough scale, even vaccinated people benefit from others getting the shot, because it limits the number of human vessels the flu can use as a base to mutate into new forms. Some economists have argued that, under some conditions, each flu shot reduces the number of people at risk for infection by 1.5. In the extreme case, we could collectively push the flu to the brink of extinction through vaccination...
...local police intelligence about the attacks - a complaint voiced by many Mumbaikars today - is particularly alarming given the meticulous planning and unusual modus operandi of the attackers. For example, an Indian navy spokesman confirmed that the terrorists entered Mumbai without detection by taking a sea route. Starting from a base in Gujarat to the north of Mumbai, they made their way to the Gateway of India at Mumbai's southern tip and another landing point on the peninsula 14 nautical miles away; they killed one boatman in the process...