Word: booster
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...This is a great confidence booster for our team," said Harvard head Coach John Kerr. "There is a lot of passion when Harvard and Yale play, and our boys came to play...
...This trip was a real confidence booster," sophomore goalkeeper Cheryl Gunther said. "I definitely feel a lot better. These games were good...
...BOOSTER SHOT Patients undergoing radiation for breast cancer are always happy when the last treatment is over. But now a study of 5,500 women shows that more radiation--eight additional sessions--can cut in half the odds that the cancer will recur in the same breast. Younger women show an even greater benefit from the booster dose. A drawback: more radiation may mean a greater chance of breast deformity...
...until after the Sydney Games. Releasing him to the Olympic squad would be like the St. Louis Cardinals in the U.S. major leagues going without slugger Mark McGwire in the crucial last days of the season. But the Lions' owner, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, is a big Olympics booster and was the main force behind the Nagano Winter Games of 1998. "He's the emperor around here, and Daisuke is like the emperor's son," says a team official. Goodbye pennant race, hello Sydney. The emperor has decreed...
DIED. ROBERT GILRUTH, 86, aeronautical engineer, rocket booster in the early days of the U.S. space program and director of the Johnson Space Center during the Apollo moon landings; in Charlottesville, Va. As director, he oversaw 25 manned space flights...