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...Harvard coach Tim Murphy had known his team would cough up three turnovers against Atlantic-10 power Northeastern, he’d have prepared for a long afternoon with the squad from across the river. But the No. 19 Huskies handed the ball over five times on Saturday, leaving the opportunistic Crimson with an unexpected statistical advantage in its favorite category...
...trade shows and signing up thousands of executives to receive e-mail updates on new technologies available for licensing. But the driving force isn't cash; ARS collects a mere $2 million a year from royalties. Rather, ARS offers companies exclusive production rights so that the firms themselves will cough up the money to bring the products to market. The payoff for America's farmers: every $1 the government spends on agricultural research translates on average into an extra $1.35 in sales of agricultural products...
...Satellite pictures show that 14 insurgents have moved south and prepared an ambush near Ramadi's soccer stadium. Humvees and trucks ferry troops that way. Upon arrival, they head to the rooftops. An explosion occurs to the west, and the streets cough black smoke into the sky. The town briefly goes quiet save a few isolated shots. Pigeons perch on a rooftop aerial, cooing softly. Bitsui tries to clean the blood from his fingers. "You just hate for that to happen," says Cpl. Edward B. Wiley. "You see a kid like that, it makes you sick. But some of these...
...loan payments by up to $90 million a year. The resulting windfall was used to hire hundreds of teachers and build new schools and health facilities. Enrollment in the nation's primary schools jumped from 5.3 million in 1997 to 7.6 million last year. Immunization rates for tetanus, whooping cough and diphtheria jumped from 49% in 1998 to 83% this year, and the HIV infection rate was halved over the same period. "We've turned around a lot of things here," says Francis Omaswa, director general of Uganda's Health Services...
...pack-a-day smoker, Beata Zvástová, a 43-year-old manager of a Bratislava post office, is no stranger to sudden coughing fits. But what she felt during her Sept. 23 shift was no smoker's cough. "I felt as if my air tube was about to stick together," she says. "I kept trying to clear my throat." When she saw her colleagues were also choking, she called the police. Last week, the Slovak Interior Ministry confirmed that Zvástová's post office had been attacked by a mixture of chloropicrin and phosgene, two chemicals...