Word: eight
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...dramatic shift in policies last semester, five of the eight all-male clubs now ban guests. The other three clubs examined their visitor policies and strengthened their commitment to limiting the number of non-members in the clubhouses...
Sophomore goaltender Robyn Scatena, who played the final eight minutes of the game, gave up TCU's lone goal in the 84th minute for the final 3-1 score...
Sierra Leone's eight-year civil war has settled into an uneasy peace. But it has left a cruel legacy. At the height of the country's chaos this spring, rebel soldiers intensified an ugly ritual of amputations, seizing civilians and chopping off limbs. Human-rights groups estimate that thousands have been maimed in this fashion. Two of them told their stories to TIME's Malcolm Linton...
Though the last naturally caused case of polio in the U.S. was in 1979, recent announcements and recalls by government agencies have drawn public attention to the real if very small risks of inoculation. Each year an average of eight children are infected with polio by the otherwise highly effective Sabin oral vaccine, which is made from live but attenuated polio viruses. This danger was highlighted in June, when the Food and Drug Administration recommended the Salk killed-virus vaccine, which is safe but somewhat less effective, instead of the Sabin variety, for the first two of the four required...
...committed the crime. Vincent Jenkins, who had served 17 years in prison for the rape of a Buffalo, N.Y., woman, was released just last week after DNA evidence showed he was not the culprit. He became the 65th inmate to have a conviction overturned thanks to DNA evidence, including eight released from death row. These numbers are testimony to the fallibility of our criminal-justice system, as well as to the determination of the Innocence Project, an enterprising New York City law clinic that has pioneered the use of DNA to free the wrongly convicted...