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...hoping to erase its early deficit.The home team again started promisingly, building a four point lead, 12-8, but Mount Olive’s tenacity wore Harvard down, as the margin dwindled to a tie at 18.“In the fourth game we let up a little bit,” Weintraub said. “We didn’t realize what was happening fast enough.”Indeed, in the blink of an eye the Trojans built a 21-18 lead and did not look back. Despite fighting hard to bring the score...
...cases of the flu had a common flu strain, and both are thought to have died from complicating factors - not the flu itself. (A third child's death has not yet been linked to flu, and is still under investigation.) "I think this year we probably have a little bit more seasonal flu, perhaps more widespread," says Dr. Yuen Kwok-yung, a professor at Hong Kong University and head of the panel. "But it's not more virulent...
...could get a whole lot cheaper and faster. A team of U.S. researchers publishing this week in the medical journal Lancet finds that simple, inexpensive tests for cardiovascular risk factors - performed in less than 10 minutes, using a scale, a tape measure and a blood-pressure check - are every bit as effective at determining heart-disease risk as more expensive procedures involving laboratory-based tests. It's not exactly a do-it-yourself kit, but it can help doctors screen patients more quickly, leading to potentially more effective treatment - in both the developed and developing world...
...their first match early on, the Crimson won in a close contest, 2-1. “The first game we played was early in the year, before we had defined what our season would be like,” Cahow said. “We struggled quite a bit.” But in late January Harvard faced the Big Green again, this time shutting it out, 4-0. “We did a great job defensively which is sort of been our bread and butter all season,” Cahow said...
...start, and both Hamas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stand to gain from making the cease-fire, or "lull," as it is called by both sides, last a bit longer. An extended truce would give Hamas recognition in its power struggle with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who sits in the West Bank, and it might lead to the lifting of a crippling economic blockade on Gaza imposed after Hamas swept out Abbas loyalist fighters from the strip last June...