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...after a brief medical check. "It's quite scary," says opposition Senator Tana de Zulueta, who was in Lampedusa last week. "There is no access to even minimal standards of identification." Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu defended the measures, saying: "These are unwelcome decisions, but are nonetheless absolutely necessary to block a real organized assault on our coast." Time got a rare look last week at the conditions in which some of Libya's would-be immigrants find themselves. In Tripoli's El-Fellah neighborhood, several hundred Ghanaians and Nigerians sleep in tents in a walled-off transit camp topped with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught Between Continents | 10/10/2004 | See Source »

...Tigers kept their hopes of a miracle season alive by coming from behind to beat winless Columbia in overtime. Princeton converted a fourth-and-six from its own 34 to set up a game-tying field goal at the end of regulation. Then, the Tigers managed to block a Columbia PAT in overtime and pick up a fourth-and-five on their own possession before scoring the game-tying touchdown and the game-winning point after. And maybe that’s the hidden lesson here: For those who think it can’t be done, try it against...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Around the Ivy League | 10/8/2004 | See Source »

Basically, to make a long story short, if you have a pulse and a computer, you know that this website has waged a fierce battle for that crucial eight-hour block of time where checking other people’s away messages and doing nothing once reigned supreme...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'BLO IT RIGHT BY 'EM: Breaking Ground On the Internet | 10/8/2004 | See Source »

...Basically,” explained Ali, “I work with umbilical cord cells, and using proteins which we know are antagonistic, we block their growth at a point where the cells can be used for other purposes.” Ali said that eventually, these cells could be used to help leukemia patients, who are otherwise dependent on bone-marrow transplants...

Author: By Amanda L. Rautenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: First-Year Nabs Prize For Stem Cell Research | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

...rallied to close the deficit to two, taking advantage of three unforced Harvard errors. But the Crimson responded to claim five of the next six points for a 15-9 lead, including an emphatic block by Ogbechie that shifted the momentum back to Harvard’s side...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Volleyball Can’t Keep Pace With BC, Loses 3-1 | 10/6/2004 | See Source »

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