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...first singles, Chung took the third set, 6-2, after splitting the first two sets, 6-4, 2-6. In the second singles several match points in the third set before winning in the tie-breaker, 8-6. Arnold had dropped the first set, 3-6, and had won the second...
...true game-breaker--and he'd make a fine quarterback, Defensive back, or wide-receiver. (Notre Dame Coach Lou Holtz has got to be experiencing some serious schadenfreude...
...they have long been seeking. Equally tantalizing was the article published in Science by molecular biologist Alexander Kamb and his colleagues at Myriad Genetics, a Salt Lake City, Utah, biotech firm. A majority of cancer cells, they found, lack functioning copies of a gene that serves as a circuit breaker and shuts down the abnormal cell growth that causes malignancy. Already Kamb is dreaming up ways to fix this seemingly simple glitch. "The route to therapy," he says, "seems surprisingly clear...
Such a scenario is what prompted the New York Stock Exchange in 1988 to add circuit breakers that temporarily halt automated transactions when the Dow Jones average rises or falls more than 50 points in a day. But even if the mechanisms work temporarily, some experts caution that all the computerized derivatives and other vehicles that Wall Street has developed since the Crash of '87 could keep shell-shocked buyers from returning to the market, out of fear of a new wave of selling. "A circuit breaker shuts off the overload," says Bruce Greenwald, a finance professor at the Columbia...
Harvard came in to the final regular season meet against Yale hitting on all cylinders. After eight hardfought matches and a 4-4 tie score, the match came down to a five-point tie-breaker in the final game. It was Harvard's Tal Ben-Shachar against Tale's Jamie Dean...