Word: lone
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Columbia's lone score came on a oneplay, 80-yard drive at the start of the second quarter. With the Lions down 21-0, tight end Bert Bondi beat Harvard cornerback Derek Yankoff over the middle on the first play of a Columbia drive from its own 20-yard line. After that it was a foot-race between Bondi, Yankoff and the free safety, which Bondi won diving into the end zone...
...deal to address one of the great transit insanities of the universe? It costs $1 round trip to drive into San Francisco and back on the Bay Bridge but $4 and up to take Bay Area Rapid Transit. Beginning next week, every car that crosses the bridge with a lone driver should be charged $4; with two people in the car, $3; with three people, $2; and with four people, $1. With less traffic, a bridge lane for bikes could be opened, and with the extra tolls, public transit could be replenished. Critical thinking as opposed to critical mass...
Texas voters over the weekend overwhelmingly added an invaluable $1 billion tax cut to George W. Bush's resume, giving the Lone Star governor a credential that will glisten on a national stage if he chooses to seek the 2000 Republican presidential nomination. The message? When George W. Bush says "No new taxes," he means it. If only his father could have kept such promises...
...nine weeks of Navy basic training begin on a luxury bus that takes recruits from O'Hare airport to the Navy's lone boot camp, Great Lakes Recruit Training Command, just north of Chicago. Onboard they watch an 18-min. orientation video with a rock-music soundtrack in which recent boot-camp grads tell the new arrivals that "physically, anybody can get through boot camp," and that it's O.K. to cry. Recruits get a "Blue Card," which helps them deal with stress. The card instructs a recruit to hand it over to a Navy trainer...
...compelling is that unlike cholesterol, which everyone knows is associated with coronary problems but can often be treated only by medication and a rigid diet, homocysteine appears to respond to nothing more demanding than eating more vegetables and taking a few more vitamins. Homocysteine is certainly not the lone gunman of heart disease, but the studies strongly suggest that it's at least a co-conspirator--and one that patients can do something about. "This is very convincing," says Dr. Jacob Selhub of Tufts University in Boston. "Homocysteine appears to be a risk factor for heart disease...