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...accomplishments, according to Green, can be attributed to a new drive to succeed. “She’s really matured a lot in the last four months especially—she became more goal-oriented,” Green said. “I think after spring break she was setting more individual goals...getting the first point for the team, sweeping every doubles match.”After sustaining a wrist injury in the spring non-league schedule, Ko was forced to sit out the first two Ivy matches against Cornell and Columbia. When she returned...
With a depleted pitching staff and injuries to key players, Harvard faced an uphill battle in 2009, especially after a grueling spring break trip down south that pitted the Crimson against some of the top teams in the nation. After losing 16 of its first 18 games, including the first two of the Ivy League season to Columbia, Harvard easily could have resigned itself to a lost season. But Douglas’ leadership set an example that the rest of the squad could not ignore...
...Better to break hearts locally than shatter the greater economy - and that's what the collapse of GM and Chrysler threatens to do, according to the White House auto task force that is undertaking the monumental rescue mission. In the deal being cobbled, GM's stockholders will be wiped out, replaced as equity owners by the Treasury Department, with 70%, and the United Auto Workers (UAW), with 17.5%. GM's business in Europe, Opel, will be sold. As many as 14 U.S. factories are marked to close. The iconic Pontiac brand is probably finished. Under a new labor agreement with...
...summer is normally a bit of a break, even for the downhearted. This summer won't be like that for most Americans. It will be an anxious four months as people watch the infrequent signals that may tell them how 2009 will end. It is a bit like Greek seers interpreting the flights of bird patterns for information about the future...
Once known as juvenile diabetes, Type 1 diabetes typically begins in childhood - Sotomayor was diagnosed at age 8 - eventually causing the body to slow production of insulin, the hormone necessary to break down sugars found in food. (In Type 2, or adult-onset, diabetes the pancreas continues to make insulin, but the body fails to respond properly to the hormone's signals.) While it is not yet clear what causes Type 1 diabetes, some experts believe that a patient's own immune system starts to attack insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, ultimately leading to a drop-off in hormone...