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...couldn’t guard our big guys,” sophomore guard Jeremy Lin said. “Brad and Evan were just being physical down there, playing as well as I’ve ever seen them play.” Shortly after following up a missed basket for the easy two, Harris raced down the court and intercepted a long pass attempt with 1:20 to play. Harris dished it off to junior guard Drew Housman, who missed the layup, but Harris once again smoothly collected the trash and put away another two points. The basket brought...
...Defense!" the players yell to one another as the clock winds down and the opposition bears down on their basket in the dying minutes of the championship game. "Play defense!" The event could be any high school girl's basketball tournament, but for the fact that the players are all wearing loose-fitting sweatshirts and Islamic hijab scarves - and there are no men in the crowd. Instead, it is at the Islamic Games 2008 that the girls of New York City's Al-Madinah school team are struggling to contain the marauding forwards of the New Jersey private school Noor...
...change has yet to occur in those parts of the developing world that are growing fastest, such as Uganda, where population is rising at 3.6%, the highest rate in the world. That's what Gen. Hayden is worried about - that bursting population will turn struggling nations like Uganda into basket cases, with political and environmental consequences for the rest of the world. For the U.S., the best option is vigorous foreign aid that helps make contraception safe, reliable and accessible in every country - too often women in the developing world who want to use contraception...
...expensive to maintain and hard to patrol. "Fencing out a disease is much harder than fencing out a predator," says Hamish McCallum. But like others, he worries about relying on captive devils, which will inevitably lose some wild traits: "I wouldn't want all my eggs in that basket...
...Thanks in part to its appallingly high HIV/AIDS infection rate, Zimbabwe has the lowest average life expectancy in the world . Zimbabwe’s current situation is not representative of its resources or the abilities of its people. Not so long ago, the country was known as the bread basket of Africa for its bounteous exports of corn and other staples to the rest of the continent. Being rich in minerals, the nation exports copper, platinum, gold and other metals. The workforce too is one of the most educated and talented in the region.Nor is the current crisis indicative...