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...eldest of nine children from a Melbourne family, Garnaut stumbled into restaurant work out of necessity, contributing to household income in an effort to ensure that all her siblings were fed and clothed. She arrived in Hong Kong in the mid-1980s as a backpacker and almost immediately found herself working for Nineteen 97. It was a bar, restaurant and café located in what was then an obscure back alley downtown, but has since mushroomed into fame as the Lan Kwai Fong nightlife district. Garnaut became Nineteen 97's highly visible manager during its heyday as a watering hole...
With 13.4 seconds remaining, the tension peaked on a Colgate timeout, as Harvard knew it would have one last chance to tie up the game. Unfortunately for the Crimson, the strong third-period team effort was not enough to carry it to a victory, as its last opportunity was snuffed out by the Raider defense. Colgate sealed the deal with an empty-net goal to put them up by two with two seconds left to play. Despite impressive goaltending from both Riley and Richter, the early hole would never completely close...
Omodele-Lucien and Chijoff-Evans also had the toughest singles showings for the Crimson, dropping their respective matches in three sets. Chijoff-Evans fell, 6-2, 6-7, 7-6, at the top spot, while Omodele-Lucien also picked up the middle set in a losing effort...
...closest losses, pushing their opponents to three sets each. Tchan and his opponent at the fourth position were separated by just a break in each set, with Boilermaker Branko Kuzmanovic coming out on top, 7-5, 4-6, 6-4. Mangham also went the distance in a losing effort, dropping the No. 6 singles match...
...another American orthopedists have gone from hardly every operating on these common wrist fractures to almost always operating on them. Somewhat better outcomes have been reported in large studies of many broken wrists treated surgically, but there are so many different surgical techniques and the level of skill (and effort) put into closed treatment is so variable that the "statistical evidence" comparing surgical to closed treatment is easy to challenge. I explained this to Peter - and also let him know that he actually lives down the block from a professor who made his career studying, and mostly operating on, these...