Word: dakotas
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...climate, however, has changed considerably. In 2005 a resolution was passed by the state senate in North Dakota, Maris's home state, to recognize Maris as baseball's single-season home run champ, and Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan has sponsored a similar resolution in the U.S. Senate, citing the ongoing steroids scandal. "Some of us think [Maris's] home run record still stands," Dorgan said during Commerce Committee hearings last year on steroids and baseball, "and that is a sad comment on baseball." Appearing before the committee, Sosa denied using steroids, and McGwire refused to answer questions about steroid...
...factor that would weigh heavily in the NCAA selection committee’s eventual decision to award the Crimson a No. 2 seed.“It does a lot for our confidence,” said junior center Kevin Du after the trip to North Dakota. “We proved to ourselves that we could play with any team in the country.” Harvard’s league struggles continued in January during a home-and-home set with Rensselaer and Union.The Crimson picked up only three points in the standings, earning a tie in Schenectady...
DIED. Raymond Davis Jr., 91, chemist who shared the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physics for his arduous experiments in the depths of mines in Ohio and South Dakota that proved the existence of neutrinos--tiny, elusive particles produced by nuclear reactions on the sun; on Long Island...
...Created in the mid-1980s as a cost-effective way of using "tough love" to turn around troubled youth, many juvenile boot camp programs have closed due to poor performance and marginal results. North Dakota, Colorado and Arizona all abandoned boot camps in the 1990s after mounting allegations of abused kids were measured against miserable recidivism rates. Georgia shut down its program in 1999 and Texas, a state synonymous with discipline, is shuttering its programs. Even before the latest controversy, Florida was in the process of scaling back its boot camps. Now, however, it wouldn't surprise anybody if that...
...operate it. A 2005 survey of New York health care workers found that less than half would be willing to report to work during a SARS outbreak. According to the Trust for America's Health report, hospitals in only two states, Rhode Island and South Dakota, have credible plans to get people to work during a major outbreak. According to a RAND Corporation study published last fall, there are also concerns about how seriously local public health agencies take the risk of disease outbreak. In one trial run, a health worker hearing the classic symptoms of bubonic plague advised...