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...only player in Division I men’s basketball to rank among his league’s top 10 in every statistical category this year did not come from the ACC or the Big East. It was Harvard’s own Jeremy Lin, who has helped launch his name, as well as Crimson basketball, onto the national radar...
...North Carolina, a program called Project Lazarus, which is slated to launch this summer, will target that very group of at-risk patients, who are not often included in other initiatives. Project Lazarus will hand out naloxone kits and offer training, including instruction on rescue breathing, to patients who are starting methadone treatment for pain - methadone is stronger and lasts longer than other painkillers, which puts users at a higher risk of overdose - and those beginning treatment for addiction with the anti-addiction drug buprenorphine, who are by definition at high risk for drug relapse and overdose...
...that kinetic contraption, it was a "five-year development program, in its 14th year, not a single flight test, little work on the third stage or the kill vehicle, etc., etc., no known launch platform...
...summer of 2006, in the immediate aftermath of North Korea's unexpected long-range missile launch, the Chinese government quietly sent a senior envoy, former foreign minister Tang Jiaxuan, to Pyongyang to express Beijing's displeasure. Tang cooled his heels for a couple of days, before finally meeting - briefly, diplomatic sources have said - with leader Kim Jong Il. Just three months later, in October 2006, North Korea again defied the world and tested a nuclear bomb for the first time...
...will the world know if Beijing has had a change of heart relative to its neighbor? Diplomats and intelligence sources say the evidence will come in two phases. In April, after the missile launch, Beijing did not stand in the way when three North Korean companies were moved from a U.S. sanctions list to a U.N. sanctions list - meaning that all nations are obliged to cut off business ties to those companies. The breadth of the sanctions now is likely to be much wider: not only must Beijing not run interference for North Korea, diplomats say, it needs to actively...