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...ball to sophomore running back Cheng Ho on seven straight plays, including a successful fourth-down conversion along the way and a touchdown that would be the game’s final score.While Harvard struggled at times to finish drives and finish plays, the team also gave its opponent fewer opportunities compared to weeks past.“We made some progress,” Murphy said. “We had great field position in the second half by virtue of our punts and our defense. It didn’t hurt so much knowing that they really...
...numbers alone told much of the story: At the 30th annual Chicago Marathon Sunday morning, one man died, more than 300 needed medical attention from the city's overloaded emergency services - which were forced to reach out to the suburbs for additional ambulances - and fewer than 25,000 of some 45,000 registered runners actually finished the 26.2-mile course on an early October day where the midday temperature reached a record 87 degrees...
...same year found more than 600. The GAO's Rhodes told Congress, however, the number is "surely in the thousands." Level 4 labs, which handle the most dangerous pathogens - those for which there are no known therapeutics or vaccines, such as smallpox, Ebola and other hemorrhagic fevers - are fewer in number, partly because they're very expensive. Before 2001 the U.S. had five Level 4 labs; now there are 15 in operation or coming on line soon, including the planned $470 million National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), which will cover as much acreage as five Wal-Mart stores...
...Lack of confidence may also mean lack of patience with new policies Sarkozy is preparing - starting with his plans to align so-called "special regimes" requiring civil servants to work fewer years to qualify for pensions closer to longer private sector schemes. To do so, Sarkozy has begun consultations with unions and their state-owned employers, and pledged to adapt the reform to the specifics of certain jobs, companies, and sectors before passing it into law and applying it - probably next year. But as they did with the month-long strikes that crippled the nation in 1995 (and eventually...
...Lenovo began a computer-recycling service last year. White-goods maker Haier has donated nearly $400 million to school tuition for poor Chinese students. All in all, about 25 Chinese firms had issued reports to shareholders and the public detailing their CSR projects by June this year, up from fewer than 10 last year, according to Syntao.com, a website that tracks good corporate practices in China. "Most of the largest corporations have committed to some action," says Syntao's manager Guo Peiyuan...