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...play kind of fell apart and left me open for the score.” In overtime, neither team managed any offense until the final moments of the competition, when Katy Delagi scored the first goal for Quinnipiac (1-1) with 56 ticks remaining on the clock. Again, Gamble would secure a crucial goal for the Crimson, tying the contest with 36 seconds left. However, Jennifer Larson would provide the Bobcats the penultimate tally in overtime, firing the ball past goaltender Kathryn Tylander to seal the victory. Despite the outcome, the game started well for the Crimson. Schoen, less than...
...mall shopping is the No. 1 leisure activity here for both the wealthy local Emirati people and the white-collar expats who outnumber them. After all, there's not much else to do in this heat?except build more malls, as South Asian migrant workers do in round-the-clock shifts...
...cells of modern Native Americans: mitochondrial DNA, which resides outside the nuclei of cells and is passed down only through the mother; and the Y chromosome, which is passed down only from father to son. Since DNA changes subtly over the generations, it serves as a sort of molecular clock, and by measuring differences between populations, you can gauge when they were part of the same group...
...group. Because the drug's effectiveness drops 50% every 12 hours and is limited to the first 72 hours after unprotected sex, proponents of Plan B say any obstacle--a doctor who is unavailable to write a prescription or a pharmacy that is out of stock--runs down the clock toward an unplanned pregnancy. The drug, a high-dose variant of ordinary birth-control pills, works in a similar way, by preventing ovulation and fertilization. It can also inhibit a fertilized egg from implanting itself on the wall of the uterus, resulting in what anti--abortion-rights advocates...
...Plan B is effective only within the first 72 hours after unprotected sex and is most effective in the first 24 hours, proponents of the drug say that any obstacle-a pharmacy that?s out of stock or a pharmacist who refuses to dispense the drug-runs down the clock toward an unplanned pregnancy. Anti-abortion-rights groups were disappointed. ?It?s a capitulation to the strong-arm tactics of the abortion lobby,? says Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America. ?There is no great demand for this drug...