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...Sophomore backstroke Geoff Seelen, and top-notch divers Steve Schramm and Jamie Greacen further highlight this seemingly endless list of talent. Only the loss of a pair of would-be sophomore standouts, giant All-American sprinter Julian Mack and Finnish breastroker Tuomo Kerola (who has returned to Finland to pursue a career in medicine) subtracts from the healthier-than-ever state of the Crimson aquatic program...
...exactly your leisure-class schedule, but it has been the road to the top for 18-year-old Kriistina Wegelius, in Boston this week for her first appearance in Eliot House's Jimmy Fund benefit, An Evening With Champions. Since she left her home in Helsinki, Finland three years ago to begin intensive training in Denver, Colo, Tintti, as her friends call her, has lived the life of an ice skating addict...
...come to America for ice skating when you live in a country like Finland...
Simple, Tintti says. "There still isn't much figure skating in Finland. Hockey is the big sport there. It's like football in America, and it takes up all the ice time...
...discovery (in a 1960 Flash Gordon comic strip, medics used it to combat an extraterrestrial virus), it is so difficult to recover from cells that only minute quantities have been available for testing. Most interferon, including the supply that will be used in the new tests, comes from Finland, where it is extracted at great expense from white blood cells collected from Red Cross blood donors. As a result, as little as a millionth of an ounce of pure interferon costs close...