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...Women’s Center considers the price drop a radical step in the right direction. Duffy added that the Women’s Center may organize another informational campaign about the vaccine, similar to the effort the center led last year. The vaccine has been shown to defend women against four of the sexually transmitted strains of HPV that cause 70 percent of cervical cancer, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention Web site. Several states are considering making the HPV vaccine mandatory for young women entering high school, but they face objections from groups who consider...
...home field nearly 100 miles away, instead of playing on the saturated field. HARVARD 1, UC SANTA BARBARA 1 For the fifth straight game, sophomore Andre’ Akpan did what he does best: score goals. Early in the second half, still in a scoreless tie with the defending national champions, junior midfielder John Stamatis threaded a pass to Akpan in the box. Akpan challenged the Gaucho keeper with a knock to the far corner that slipped in and gave Harvard the 1-0 advantage. Akpan now has five goals and four assists on the season, good for the team...
...While Schuster continued to defend his resolution, veteran committee member Alfred B. Fantini, who drew chuckles from the audience for a forceful delivery that often bordered on shouting, criticized Schuster and Nolan’s proposal “nebulous” and lacking in specifics...
With Stone anchoring the net, the entire Crimson defense, led by Shapiro, pulled together to defend against six penalty corners...
...fighting began after an explosion detonated near the U.S. convoy, but the incident report does not reflect that. The Blackwater official declared that, contrary to some reports from Iraq, "the convoy was violently attacked by armed insurgents, not civilians, and our people did their job, they fired back to defend human life." The official said that "Blackwater is contracted to work in a war zone, its personnel are under frequent fire, and all the rules of engagement permit them to defend themselves...