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Defensively, Harvard also had trouble communicating as B.U.'s ball picks freed Terrier players for layups throughout the second half...
...right now," says political scientist Kris Deschouwer. Sensitive scarcely begins to describe it. The country is still shaken by the discovery last August of a child-kidnapping ring that preyed on young girls. A 12-year-old and a 14-year-old who had been abducted and raped were freed from a macabre underground dungeon in a home of the accused ringleader, Marc Dutroux, near the southern city of Charleroi. Police dug up the bodies of four other girls, ages 8 to 19, missing for more than a year. The tragedy transfixed Belgium, and national TV broadcast their funerals live...
...Friday, however, it was embarrassingly evident that mission planners had known even less than anyone realized about the reality on the ground. The attacking Tutsi rebels finally routed the Hutu militias, who fled west from the Mugunga camp. Freed of their coercive overseers, thousands upon thousands of men, women and children then simply stood up and began pouring down the straight tarmac road toward Rwanda. By Saturday, 200,000 had crossed the border, and 350,000 more were on the way. They "looked healthy," reported Ray Wilkinson, a U.N. spokesman on the border. The formerly intimidated masses for whom...
...find out, Hayflick harvested cells from fetal tissue and transferred them to a Petri dish. Freed from the responsibility of doing anything to keep a larger organism alive, the cells did the only other thing they knew how to do: divide. Shortly after they were placed in culture, they doubled their number. Then they doubled the doubling. The cycle repeated itself about 100 times, until all at once it stopped. From then on, the cells did something a lot like aging. They consumed less food; their membranes deteriorated; and the culture as a whole languished. Hayflick repeated the experiment...
...cancer, and was jailed in 1989, arrived home Tuesday night on medical parole. In 1989 he was sentenced to a 13 year jail term for organizing democracy demonstrations on Tiananmen Square, which the government called "counterrevolutionary propaganda and incitement." Chen, who needs an operation to cure his condition was freed on medical leave, which makes it twice the Chinese authorities have released him for this reason. In 1995, out on medical parole, Chen organized a one day hunger strike to mark the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, and was rearrested. If he was healthy enough to fast, the police reasoned...