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Although conventional wisdom says that it is hard for freshmen to score, first-year attacker Jeff Cohen notched a career-high six goals at Harvard Stadium on Saturday to lift the No. 17 Harvard men’s lacrosse team over Holy Cross, 11-4. Mired in a three game losing streak with defeats to a trio of nationally ranked Ivy opponents, the Crimson (6-5, 1-3 Ivy) squared off against the Crusaders (3-11, 0-6 Patriot) in a non-league matchup. After a slow start, the Harvard attack struck early and often to stop its losing ways...
...nearby nuclear power plant. "Loads of people came up to me grabbing applications," Jackson says. Still, he's hopeful some of the federal government's stimulus money will help Allendale launch new projects. "Morale, it's kind of down right now," he says, adding, "but hopefully, we can lift ourselves back...
...authors of the study published online this week in the Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences and the director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at University of Southern California (USC). "They recruit the brain in a way that older emotions do as well." (Read "How to Lift Your Mood: Try Smiling...
...lies less than 100 miles (160 km) off the coast of Florida, the two nations have had no diplomatic relations since 1961 and use Switzerland as a mediator whenever they need to talk. But maybe - finally - things might change. On April 13 President Barack Obama announced that he would lift some longstanding restrictions, allowing Cuban Americans to visit and send remittances to their families and easing - but not removing - the 47-year-old economic embargo on the island nation. (Read "Will Obama Open Up All U.S. Travel to Cuba...
President Obama's announcement this week that he would lift remittance and travel restrictions for those with family still in Cuba marked a small but significant change in the U.S.'s position toward the island. Obama also agreed to let telecommunications companies - long barred under the embargo - to pursue business in the country, which still has roughly the same number of phone lines as it did in the 1950s. But the fate of the embargo rests in the sensitive hands of politicians, and no one is sure what Cuba's reaction will be. President Raúl Castro (who took...