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...exact number of employees who have fallen ill is a matter of contention...
...could look at the men's basketball team's 60-56 win over Dartmouth on the weekend and draw parallels to the 1999-2000 season. The Crimson occupy the exact same position it held last year after playing similar games against Dartmouth...
...Noah is expected to be born any day now to Bessie, a cow living on a farm near Sioux City, Iowa. Cows have given birth to gaurs before, but this is the first time that one animal species is acting as surrogate mother to a clone--an exact genetic duplicate--of a different species. "The gaur is developing well," says Emily Poe, a spokeswoman for Advanced Cell Technologies. A small biotechnology company based in Worcester, Mass., ACT is using a novel cross-species nuclear-transfer technique that could usher in what it sees as a new era in conservation...
...Although exact numbers were not available, students involved with the election process estimated that about 50 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in the election...
According to legend, our new president has an extremely high chance of dying while in office--an 87.5 percent chance, in fact, based on the seven of eight eligible presidents who have died by the legend. Many voters--45 percent, to be exact--would probably find this statistic to be the only positive thing about Election 2000, although I personally would prefer to have a president too incompetent to do damage in office over one who voted against the Clean Water Act (our new Vice President-elect Richard B. Cheney). However, a legend's a legend, and a legend doesn...