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Notre Dame will look to control the game, as they boast a young but incredibly skilled team that can maintain possession and dictate the pace of the match...

Author: By Rob Cacace, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Soccer Faces No. 1 Notre Dame Tonight | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

Notre Dame ranks near the top of the nation in team defense and team offense. The Irish boast an amazing .31 GAA and have allowed only four goals in the last 15 games, including 11 shutouts over that span...

Author: By Rob Cacace, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Soccer Faces No. 1 Notre Dame Tonight | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...story is the same all over the world. In the high Andes of northern Chile, five more 8-m-class telescopes are either finished or nearing completion, while peaks in Arizona, Texas and South Africa too boast scopes more powerful than anything known to science just a decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Hubble | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...children in the country's foster-care systems. Today that number has doubled, to between 550,000 and 560,000 children. Often these are held hostage to abuse and neglect, to bureaucratic foul-ups and carelessness, condemned to futures in which dreams cannot come true. President Clinton and Congress boast of new legislation and funding to move children more quickly from foster care to adoption. Indeed, there has been an increase in those numbers. Many foster parents too continue to act selflessly as important way stations for at-risk kids while their biological parents get their lives together. However, neglect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crisis Of Foster Care | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...bottom line is that the manufacturers of homeopathic remedies are raking in hundreds of millions of dollars a year for products that may be no more effective than ordinary tap water and are probably not as pure. Yet proponents abound, particularly in Europe. A standard boast, in fact, is that the British royal family uses and believes in homeopathic products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something to Sneeze At | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

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