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...slight advantage on the field finally showed up on the scoreboard when Yenne struck in the 34th minute. The scoring play developed from the left midfield as sophomore Caitlin Fisher passed the ball straight ahead to Westfall, who cut ahead of the Tiger defenders...
Yenne netted her second score 51 minutes into the game on a pass from freshman midfielder Cailtlin Fisher. Settling the ball in front of the Yale net, Yenne turned and fired...
...Fisher found that leaving her job was wrenching. "I felt as if I was letting women down by pulling myself out of the workforce," she says. And she misses the affirmation of evaluations and pay raises. For now, though, the loss of those rewards is offset by her relief from stress. "I didn't know my children very well before. I saw them only at their worst time. I would get home at dinnertime. I would cram food into their mouths, and I would put them to bed. I never got to see the good moments, only the tired, cranky...
...restaurants, friends' houses and school--can be tricky and sometimes encourages junk-food consumption or even abstaining from eating. Jeff Siegfried, a 13-year-old vegetarian from Bellingham, Wash., says his school-cafeteria offerings are so "pathetic," he often skips lunch. For kids of ranchers, such as Carina Fisher, 17, of Bakersville, Calif., the diet can be alienating. No longer a vegetarian, Fisher recalls unwittingly insulting family friends by attending barbecues and brandings with egg sandwiches in hand...
That was the start of meVC, which in June launched its $330 million meVC Draper Fisher Jurvetson Fund 1, taking stakes in such start-ups as Internet telephony player Pagoo and e-commerce firm Auctionwatch. Much like shares in a regular, closed-end mutual fund, meVC shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: MVC). Unfortunately, because of this year's groggy market, meVC shares closed at $12.88 last week, down 36% from their initial price of $20. Since VC bets are notoriously risky, many critics think small-time investors shouldn't be fooling around with this business. Freudenthal...