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Ravaged en masse by what Crimson coach Ted Donato '91 labeled "a nasal infection," Harvard's skaters were noticeably a step slower than usual, struggling to crash the net and generate traffic just beyond Wildcats netminder Tuomas Tarkki's crease. Soft rebounds left on Tarkki's doorstep that would otherwise have been pounced upon and poked home were regularly corralled by Northern Michigan's blueliners and cleared from harm's way with minimal challenge from Harvard's forwards...
...system does not leave the possibility of “making it big” in retirement through high times in the markets, it also does not allow for retirees to be left out hung to dry in the case of prolonged bear markets. Retiring after a stock market crash under the privatized system could leave our elderly barely scraping by. Even schemes of partial-privatization forces Americas elderly to play dice with its retirement by lowering modest guaranteed income levels...
...truth," says al-Shabibi, 63. "[The insurgents] make my job more, shall we say, interesting?" Since he took over as central-bank governor a year ago, al-Shabibi, a former economist at the Geneva-based U.N. Conference on Trade and Development, has given the bank's employees a crash course in 21st century finance. He has made the bank switch from typewriters and calculators to computers, introduced it to newfangled financial instruments like currency auctions and replaced the country's bank notes so that Iraqis no longer have to carry Saddam Hussein's mug in their wallet...
...adenosine, a neurotransmitter-like chemical that helps trigger sleep. In a recent study, Wyatt and others tested that theory, comparing a group of volunteers taking low, steady caffeine doses with subjects who got none at all. The caffeinated group indeed performed better on cognitive tests, with no late-day crash. (Though p.m. caffeine may not do much for your ability to sleep when you want...
...this film.) The special effects are realistic and, in the film’s tenser scenes, fitfully frightening. Creatures such as the deadly viper and the infamous leeches are gruesomely life-like. And the action scenes—the destruction of Aunt Josephine’s house, a near-crash with a train—have a heart-stopping hyper-realism...