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...first three quarters of 2008 - the financial foundation of the sport is at risk. In fact, four weaker-performing teams in the Sprint Cup Series merged to try to cut costs and stay competitive: Gillett Evernham Motorsports absorbed Petty Enterprises, and Dale Earnhardt Inc. joined up with Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates. "The problem you have with NASCAR is kind of like you have in professional baseball," says Sabates. "You have three or four teams that have all the money and can buy all the talent and have all the sponsors." As sponsor money dries up, weaker teams...
...risks: smokers generally know cigarettes cause cancer, but they also tend to believe they're less likely than other smokers to get it. And as any snack-loving dieter can attest, people can be comically inept at predicting their future behavior. You swear you will eat just one potato chip but don't stop until the bag is empty. (Read Laura Blue's Wellness blog on TIME.com...
...data from six other labs, was compiled into a set of 3,000 heart attack patients and 3,000 controls. Researchers performed a million tests on each patient’s DNA for a total of 6 billion tests, said O’Donnell. The study used a gene chip developed by Altshuler’s team that can screen simultaneously for single problematic genetic locations and deletions of large chunks of DNA. When the data was processed through the chip, researches found nine single genetic locations, but no large deletions, to be associated with increased risk for early heart...
...been sharing the load: in each of its 12 wins this season, Harvard has had at least three scorers in double figures. Saturday night was no different: freshman point guard Brogan Berry led the way with 17 points, and sophomore guard Christine Matera came off the bench to chip in 16 points. Co-captain Niki Finelli and sophomore forward Emma Markley added 11 and 10, respectively. “All we’re looking for on any given night is seven or eight players,” Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. “The way this...
...various CLIF and LUNA bars on Jan. 30, citing “concerns that the recalled bars contain peanut products that were manufactured by Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), which is the focus of an ongoing Salmonella investigation.” Clif’s Web site lists Chocolate Chip Peanut Crunch bars with sell-by dates between Oct. 9, 2008 and Dec. 31, 2009 as one of their recalled selections. Bars of that variety with a sell-by date of July 25, 2009—well within the affected date range—remained on Lamont café shelves...