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...lead for good in the early stages of the second period. She corralled the puck deep between the circles but had her initial shot rebuffed. Brine stayed in the play, gathered the rebound, and patiently waited for the off-balance Bugden to topple before flicking a backhander over the fallen netminder. “She’s got good hands,” Stone said of Brine. “And she’s very good around the net.”“The offense finally stepped up,” Sifers said...
...Internet and Society and the Journal of Law and Technology. Smith said that technological growth is hampered by the “relative dearth of scientists, mathematicians and engineers that we are producing in the U.S.” He noted that in recent years the U.S. has fallen from being the third-largest bestower of degrees in these disciplines to the 17th-largest. Smith said the government has exacerbated this problem by discouraging many of those who graduate with these degrees, some of the “brightest international students,” from staying in the United States...
This is a tale so primal and pitiable that for many a former child it deserves to be retold on an analyst's couch. The boy has fallen in love with comic books; studied and memorized their narrative outrages, their graphic ingenuity; saved them in meticulous stacks or mold-resistant wrappers. Then he hears his mother say she was cleaning up the basement and "I threw that junk out." Junk! the child cries. Those yellowing pages of newsprint, those copies of Mad and Vault of Horror and Weird Science were my obsession, my vocation, my youth...
DOWN SYNDROME The number of Down syndrome babies born in the U.S. has fallen dramatically since second-trimester screening became routine about 15 years ago--a development viewed with some alarm by both anti-abortion and Down syndrome support groups. Now a new, more accurate screening test could accelerate that trend. Conducted as early as the 11th week of pregnancy, the test gives women more time either to prepare to raise a Down baby or to consider a less-risky first-trimester abortion. The test--which factors in the mother's age, a fetal ultrasound measurement and the levels...
There have been many times whenreligion has fallen behind science and also when efforts have been made to reassert its authority. Intelligent design is a fleeting but dangerous effort to maintain a position that, in the face of science, becomes less and less credible with the passage of time...