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...clear how valuable the two freshmen were to the Crimson when they left the squad briefly in march to join their respective national teams at the World Championships in Finland--where Botterill and the Canadians avenged the loss at Nagano by defeating Ruggiero and the United States in the championship game...
...need better cell-phone technology from Finland, or Lapland, or anywhere else. What we need is anti-cell phone technology, to take back the streets (and passenger trains and restaurants and theaters and airplanes) from the cell people before we all go crazy. There must be a gadget in the Sharper Image catalog or somewhere that could negate this nuisance. A cell jammer, say, a pocket-size device that cell haters could carry around and deploy to knock a phone abuser offline. Even better if the device could also transmit into his ear a high-pitched shrieking sound, similar...
...series of targeted studies in Finland and the U.S. showed that beta carotene supplements don't ward off cancer at all. This doesn't mean that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables doesn't reduce the risk of cancer, says Harvard's Walter Willett, or even that carotenoids aren't protective. But, he concludes, "it looks like taking beta carotene in high pharmacological doses is not the right thing...
...officials, meanwhile, met their Russian counterparts for a second day in Finland Thursday, hoping to resolve the standoff over Russia?s involvement in the peacekeeping mission. Washington insists on a unified command, and that the Russians not be given their own sector; Moscow continues to demand its own sector and refuses to subordinate its troops to NATO. "They?ll probably reach a compromise agreement by creating some form of parallel command in name that appears to satisfy both concerns," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. Indeed, NATO is concerned that the outflow of Kosovar Serbs will create unstoppable momentum toward...
...people last week were as anxious as Al Gore about the peace initiative of Russia's Viktor Chernomyrdin and Finland's Martti Ahtisaari. As the Vice President campaigned in New Hampshire, the topic of the day was to have been health care for the elderly, but at every stop Gore met questions about the peace plan that had just been accepted by the Yugoslav parliament. Gore maintained a cautious face publicly, warning that it was premature to claim victory. Still, several times in private he dashed to a secure phone line to get the latest, increasingly optimistic assessments from...