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...Friday night, Harvard women’s basketball (17-8, 9-2) traveled to Columbia University’s Dodge Fitness Center and showed the Lions (13-13, 6-6) that it is more than comfortable butting heads...literally. The Crimson defeated Columbia, 71-58, in the contact-laden bout that was a battle of rebounds, fast-breaks, and hard-earned trips to the foul line. Though Harvard held onto the lead for the entire game, its hands were slippery. The Lions made it clear that “it ain’t over till it?...
...awards-laden collegiate career, replete with All-Ivy League, All-ECAC and All-America team honors, junior Christina Kessler’s latest achievement saw back-to-back shut outs against Cornell in the ECAC Hockey Quarterfinal series—her fifth and sixth of the season...
...Next came a Washington Post investigation into the life and death of Abdallah Saleh al-Ajmi. Upon his release in November 2005 after four years at Gitmo, al-Ajmi became a suicide bomber, eventually driving an explosive-laden truck into an Iraqi army base near Mosul last March, killing 13 Iraqi soldiers and injuring many more. This, exclaimed the pro-Gitmo group, was proof positive that detainees should not be released. (See pictures of prison life inside Baghdad's Camp Cropper...
...immune systems may be getting weaker and even bored, with little or nothing to fight. This theory was first posited 20 years ago by a British epidemiologist who noticed that children with more siblings had less hay fever than kids in smaller (and presumably less snot- and germ-laden) families. It could explain the climbing incidence of all allergies - not just those to foods - as well as asthma. Sanitation can't demystify the entire trend, but the so-called hygiene hypothesis remains the leading answer to baffled parents' questions...
...rest of fiscal 2009, since Congress agreed on only three of the 15 appropriations bills last year and the stopgap measure it passed expires on March 6. Despite the fact that congressional Democrats crafted much of the bill after Obama was elected, the White House argues that the pork-laden bill - which increases federal spending across a range of Cabinet departments by 8% - is part of the prior Administration's legacy. "What may be next week's bill is last year's legislation," said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs. (See the top 10 outrageous earmarks...