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...atmosphere was clearly that of a title bout, compounded by a noisy crowd equally split between Harvard and Yale fans and other players. With the Ivy championship trophy sitting conspicuously at center court, it was impossible to ignore the significance of each and every match as play crept on and the crowd grew rowdier...
Once that gap was opened, Harvard was unable to do much down the stretch to close it, and never crept closer than nine over the game’s final 15 minutes. As has become customary in the Harvard-Penn matchup, the Crimson was kept at bay by the quickness and versatility of the Quakers’ three-guard lineup, as all of Penn’s starting backcourt players reached double figures—Begley had a game high 21 points, while Ibrahim Jaaber added 12 and Osmundson racked up 10. The trio also combined for 18 rebounds, eight...
...success stories. Almost absurdly easy to detect--a few painless seconds with a pressure cuff does it--hypertension is comparatively simple to treat with weight loss, lifestyle changes and a little medication. In the 1970s, doctors began tackling the condition aggressively, and as the percentage of people being treated crept up, the incidence of hypertension-related conditions fell. Strokes alone declined more than 50% from 1972 to 1994. Clearly, the country was closing in on a big medical win--with medications like beta blockers and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors making big contributions to that success. But the ball...
...course, you know the story—my favorite baseball player ever, one Pedro Jaime Martinez, ended up letting the tying runs score in the eighth inning before Aaron Boone rocketed a shot into the October sky, as the clock crept towards midnight, to defeat my beloved Red Sox and send the Yankees to the World Series and the Yankee fans into hysteria yet again...
...souk was deserted on the morning that Maka Mohamed Nadi was raped. Moments before, two Sudanese soldiers had cleared the market by casually firing volleys into the air, sending townspeople scurrying for cover. But Maka had crept back to lock up her vegetable store - the soldiers often stole from the vendors - when the two men wedged their way into the doorway. They demanded food, and when Maka refused, they shut the door and took much more...