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...more members of the family had fallen ill with avian flu. The first woman died on May 4 and was buried before any tissue samples could be taken, but doctors were able to confirm H5N1 in the remaining family members, all but one of whom have died. An eighth family member, a 32-year-old man, became sick on May 15 and died May 22; he may have caught the virus while caring for his infected 10-year-old son, who died of the disease...
...You’ve got to give it up to Cornell,” Reid said. “They sold the farm to get lane one, and they won the heat at a 38 [stroke rating].” And as it turned out, Cornell—seeded eighth in the varsity race—saved its best for last, both during the EARC season and at Sprints. The Cornell varsity stormed out to a commanding lead within the first 500 meters in the varsity final, turning one of Sprints’ most contested races into a struggle...
After the dust had settled on Franklin Field in Pennsylvania on Sunday, the Harvard women had taken seven and the men eighth at the outdoor Heptagonals Championships. The Cornell men and women won the Ivy League with 152.5 and 129 points, respectively. The Crimson men finished the last day of the meet with 17, while the women had 64.50. The latter had a very successful day on Sunday, with two athletes emerging as Heptagonals champions. Captain Laura Maludzinski took home her second consecutive Heptagonals crown in the 1500 meter run with a dramatic finish. She beat out Nyam Kagwima...
...start particularly well,” Porter said. “We were definitely a little disappointed about how we sailed.”The poor start left the team with a lot of room to make up after the first day, which ended with the team in eighth place overall. Johnson and Simon sat in ninth place, while Porter and Schultz were in fifth.The Crimson closed the gap through much of Sunday, but the final positioning was still in question going into the regatta’s final race.“It was really close between about four...
...Year honors.PRINCETON 9, HARVARD 3Princeton got to Crimson ace hurler Shawn Haviland early and often in the opener, beginning with a two-run blast in the top of the first inning that gave the Tigers an early lead and ending with a two-run dunker in the eighth that put the game out of reach.After Andrew Salini worked out a two-out walk against Haviland in the first, Wendkos drove a low fastball over the wall in left-center, silencing the home crowd and putting Princeton in front, 2-0. “We were a little stunned...