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...leads the Crimson in batting (.394), on-base percentage (.475), and slugging (.621), and needs one home run to tie his personal best of four during the 2002 season. In Penn, the rest of Harvard’s lineup will welcome an interdivisional opponent that has been a dependable boon for struggling offenses. With the Ivies’ second-worst ERA—only Brown’s 8.83 mark is worse than its 8.74—Penn features a jack-of-all-trades reliever named Doug Brown and a staff full of astronomical ERAs. It has yielded...
...changed the patients’ lives. “They’re more socially acceptable,” said Alan B. Retik, senior author and chief of urology at Children’s Hospital, in a press release. “I think ultimately it would be a boon for them—both their social and their work lives.” Before surgery, patients often had to wear diapers and suffered from incontinence. “Now that I’ve had my transplant, my body actually does what I want...
...great melt may not bode well for polar bears or Inuits, but it could be a boon for shipping and transportation entrepreneurs, and none has stepped into the icy breach with more foresight than Pat Broe, a Denver-based real-estate and railroad magnate. The press-shy Broe, 58, who describes himself as a junk dealer ("I buy troubled stuff and turn it around," he says), has a history of contrarian investments. When he purchased 807 miles of nationally owned railway stock from the Canadian government for $11 million in 1997, he also picked up, for the token...
...advantage of the common ground of a shared housing assignment as a starting point for their advising and mentoring relationships. And linking entryways to Houses would also allow freshman participation in special House events—panels, formal dinners, and faculty events—which would be a great boon to the freshman experience...
...dozen colleges to waive the 50 percent hurdle for funding, enrollment at eight of them rose eight-fold over six years. Raising funding for online colleges provides an effective way of increasing access to higher education, and the increasing number of college graduates will be an overall boon to the U.S. economy and to society as a whole. The practicality of an online education makes it a sensible vehicle for providing continuing education. Its accessibility to rural and working students, as well its lower cost, will provide a far greater reach than a traditional college education. With increased federal funding...