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...ROBERT KORZENIOWSKI, Olympic racewalking champion...
...climb one mountain, and there’s going to be another, bigger, beyond it.” Well, tomorrow the No. 21 Crimson will face what Fish deemed its “Everest” in No. 1 Illinois—the defending national champion squad that hasn’t lost since May 2002, 62 matches...
...Illinois is going in as the defending champion,” Chu said, “and this is where their tournament really begins. We have nothing to lose, and we’re going to go after them at every position, and I’m confident that if we come and play like we did against Tulane, it’s anybody’s match...
Katie Zucker, 16, has sky blue eyes, wild curly hair and a dazzling smile. She is a champion equestrian and an A student. Her parents are doting, her friends devoted. So what's not to envy? Well, there's the small rectangular box attached to her belt that pumps insulin through a tube into her hip. To test her blood, she pricks her finger seven times a day. "It's scary," she says. "If your blood sugar goes too low, you could go into a coma." Sometimes at school her eyes swell, and she can't see the blackboard...
...French are very territorial when it comes to champagne, ski resorts and, yes, pharmaceutical companies, which helps explain why the government strong-armed Sanofi-Synthelabo into sweetening a hostile bid for the Strasbourg-based Aventis--to create a French "national champion" in the pill market--and why the government warned Swiss drugmaker Novartis to stop fishing in the Rhine. Sanofi-Aventis will be the world's third largest pharmaceutical firm, after Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline. But since the merger announcement, Sanofi's shares have tumbled, in part because investors think $66 billion is too high a price for Aventis, whose...