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...Matson goal spoiled what otherwise could have been a breakthrough game for the Crimson. Up until then, neither team had been particularly dominant, as each had given up three penalty corners, and Harvard freshman Kate McDavitt came closer to scoring than any of Princeton's forwards in the early going...
Prior to this year, the Crimson hadn't beaten the Bears in several years. Harvard had opened the 2000 preseason with a breakthrough 9-7 victory over the Bears. Saturday's win was the Crimson's first league victory over the Bears since...
...arrangement if it fails to end the pregnancy or there are side effects. No more clinics; no more waiting until pregnancy is far enough along for surgical abortion. Just a series of pills taken over a period of days to induce a miscarriage. Advocates hailed it as the greatest breakthrough in women's health since the Pill and vowed to have mifepristone in doctors' hands within a month...
BUYING TIME In what may be a breakthrough, researchers used early drug intervention to delay the onset of the autoimmune disorder multiple sclerosis. Doctors administered either a placebo or interferon beta-1a (Avonex) to 383 patients who had suffered one episode of symptoms--such as double or cloudy vision or problems with bladder control or balance--that often precede MS. Forty percent of the placebo group but less than 24% of the Avonex group developed MS over the course of the three-year study...
...After almost a week of bloodletting, both Barak and Arafat have even less room for maneuvering than they did at Camp David, which means it could be a year or more before prospects for a breakthrough reemerge. Until then, both leaders, assisted by whoever's in charge in Washington, may have to work to maintain something less than peace - the absence...