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...complete its sweep.Freshman starter Conner Hulse—who had given up just one earned run in his first seven innings of work—succumbed to fatigue in the eighth frame. Following a single and wild pitch, cleanup hitter Dean Forthun ripped a double down the left-field line to give Columbia a 4-3 lead and chase Hulse off the mound.“[Hulse] worked his ass off,” said senior right fielder Tom Stack-Babich. “It looked like he got a little tired at the end, but I thought...
...November, sweeping the dust from that musical massacre off of his electronic toys, and taking them all to Yale for Spring Fling. And oh, the alternative hip hop group N*E*R*D ("No-one Ever Really Dies." Um, yeah) is also coming. Any group that can sing the line "Her ass is a spaceship I want to ride" with a straight face must be a good...
Hidden by the big bottom-line losses are a number of Citi businesses that seem to be doing well. Along with mergers and acquisitions, analysts point to Citi's foreign-currency trading divisions and its business of processing payments and moving money around the world as two other bright spots. Earlier this month, Citi CEO Vikram Pandit said his bank was profitable in the first two months of the year. "M&A alone is not a big enough businesses to swing the bank," says analyst Richard Bove, who follows bank stocks at Rochdale Securities. "But put them all together, along...
...cost per quality-adjusted life year, you are basically deciding how much a year of life is worth? Yes. The most controversial area is where you place the dividing line between what is cost-effective and what is cost-ineffective. That is the "How much is life worth?" question. And there is no real empirical research to guide you. We have looked at what other government departments do. Our Department of Transport, for instance, has a cost-per-life-saved threshold for new road schemes of about 1.5 million GBP per life, or around 30,000 GBP per life year...
...Washington and Mexico City focusing enough attention and resources under the anti-drug Merida Initiative toward local police reform? The U.S. needs to assure that enough money is put toward making the police forces along the border sufficiently robust - precisely so they'll be the first line of defense for the U.S., just as it's equally important that U.S. border police be better able to stop the flow of illegal weapons into Mexico. The U.S. also needs to be able to share more information with Mexico - like intelligence about [U.S.-based] gangs like Barrio Azteca, whose members are used...