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Thanks to this training, Ingersoll’s performance in the tournament provided Harvard with both a needed boost to kick off the Ivy League season as well as a prospect to watch in the future...
...Gordon to mix things up and try to establish a solid run game, but the position remained the lone unfinished product in an otherwise rock solid offensive attack.But one week into 2008, there’s a new face on the scene threatening to give the Crimson offense a boost. Enter junior Ben Jenkins.Last weekend against Holy Cross, the Raleigh, N.C. native made his first-ever collegiate start at running back and seemed to settle into the position quickly, rushing nine times for 34 yards. Fans saw flashes of brilliance, as the junior juked and cut back with ease, keeping...
...month or so since then she has been in lockdown, either lashed to McCain's side to boost the size of his crowds, or hunkered down in debate prep and remedial candidate school. No press conferences, few interviews, no questions allowed from the reporters traveling with her, no appearances on The View to stare down Joy Behar. Rather than playing to her strengths as a fresh face in an unendurably long campaign, they hid her away in a kind of conspicuous vote of no-confidence - which, one can only imagine, took a toll on her. I was struck watching...
...Investors flocked to buy stock from leading dairies Mengniu, Yili and Bright as a way to tap into the growing purchasing power of Chinese consumers and the country's rising dairy exports, which totaled $232 million last year. In rural China, poor farmers scrimped to buy cattle to boost their incomes, becoming part of the food chain serving the Chinese middle class's new taste for milk, butter and cheese...
...Rising demand contributed to the crisis, experts say. Melamine, which is used to make plastics and is banned from food because it causes kidney stones, was added to boost the apparent protein content of milk that was increasingly scarce and of poor quality. "Demand was outstripping supply so rapidly in the market that [producers] tried every way to increase supply," says Philippe Chan, Asia manager for Canadean, a beverage industry research firm. "That resulted in lots of raw milk not being not stringently controlled...