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...meet,” Cocks said. “It’s always nice to win the relays, and any time you can get all eight guys to work hard and pull out a one-two finish it’s great. It was definitely a confidence booster.”Cromwell and Rathgeber each won two events for Harvard, and Cromwell set a pool record in the 200 backstroke. Degnan-Rojeski had four top-three finishes. “Jason has been doing incredible recently,” Cromwell said. “We’ve been...
...Rathgeber placed fourth, the Crimson did not have the numbers to compete with the Cavaliers. Virginia ended up beating Harvard by only 11 points.“Virginia is a great team, so the fact that we were competitive with them for the whole meet is definitely a confidence booster,” sophomore Sam Wollner said. “The 200 breaststroke was key for them—four out of the top eight swimmers were from Virginia. Geoff swam a great race, but we didn’t have enough swimmers in the race. That race enabled them...
Nobody wants to drag the entire nursery through the airport, but experienced family travelers say it's better to overpack than do without. Two increasingly popular options: rent a crib, a booster seat and whatever else is needed via websites like babysaway.com or arrange for a company like JetSetBabies to ship diapers, baby food and formula to your destination...
...look when a CDC advisory panel backed the broader use of a vaccine for hepatitis A in 1- and 2-year-olds, estimating that routine use in children could cut the national caseload of the disease by 180,000. For teens and adults, the panel recommended a booster shot for pertussis, or whooping cough, a highly infectious, long-lasting illness that has been on the rise since 1976, particularly among adolescents. The shot could prevent 1 million cases a year...
Number of cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, among U.S. teens and adults that could be prevented each year with a booster vaccination. Most children, for whom the long-lasting coughing illness can be fatal, get several pertussis shots by age 6, but immunity wears off. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine says one extra shot for teens and adults would do the trick...