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There was only wide-open ice between Botterill and Dartmouth goaltender Amy Ferguson. Botterill approached at full steam, closing the gap between her and the net in a split second. Harvard fans knew it was over, and Dartmouth fans hoped for a miracle...
...Crimson got down by as much as 13 in the end, and closed the gap to five before finally going down in the final minutes...
...Once limited to a few countries in southeast Asia, the trade is going global, a byproduct of falling borders, the ease of international travel and, in Europe, the growing gap between rich and poor. Its impact is hard to overestimate, destroying families, fueling corruption and providing a fat new source of revenue for organized crime groups. But it is the degradation of human victims that has drawn the most attention. "This is more than a women issue," said a veteran U.S. investigator. "It's a political problem, an economic problem, a migration problem and most of all a question...
...scientists speculate. The team that cloned Dolly waited until she was seven months old to announce her existence. Creating her took 277 tries, and right up until her birth, scientists around the world were saying that cloning a mammal from an adult cell was impossible. "There's a significant gap between what scientists are willing to talk about in public and their private aspirations," says British futurist Patrick Dixon. "The law of genetics is that the work is always significantly further ahead than the news. In the digital world, everything is hyped because there are no moral issues--there...
...Tuesday's change is not a perfect solution--this is only a stop-gap measure while we look for permanent solution," he said. "Students deserve good network access, and we need to find a way to ensure that the network is used and not abused...