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While Stempniak is a forward of average build who relies on speed, Jessiman is a 6’5 beast along the boards who is also able to clog the middle. In last year’s games against the Big Green, Welch often took the lead in matching Jessiman’s physical play, something he will be expected to continue when he returns to the Harvard lineup on Saturday...
...reminder to both sides of how much Sri Lanka has to lose if it slips back into war. In Colombo, the nation's capital, checkpoints and armored guards are still conspicuous. But many roads that were closed off for security reasons have reopened, and shiny new imported cars clog the main traffic arteries at rush hour. "This year, sales are up sharply," says Nobuhiko Kato, managing director of Toyota Lanka. Fueled by a booming financial sector that offers consumers easy purchasing plans, Toyota forecasts that the number of its cars sold in Sri Lanka will rise from...
Danis is 1-3 lifetime against Harvard (his only win was in last year’s season-opener), but he is playing behind a physical defensive corps that lost only one everyday player to graduation and is known for its ability to collapse around net, clog passing lanes and swipe away rebounds...
...name, fibromyalgia. Now that I am receiving proper treatment, I am doing better. True hypochondria must certainly be a problem, but as long as doctors label a patient a hypochondriac before ruling out every other possible disorder, people with genuine health problems will, as your story put it, "clog the whole health-care system." WENDY DALY Charles Town, W.Va...
Hypochondriacs don't harm just themselves; they clog the whole health-care system. Although they account for only about 6% of the patients who visit doctors every year, they tend to burden their physicians with frequent visits that take up inordinate amounts of time. According to one estimate, hypochondria racks up some $20 billion in wasted medical resources in the U.S. alone. And the problem may be getting worse, thanks to the proliferation of medical information on the Internet. "They go on the Web," says Dr. Arthur Barsky, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital...