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...Crimson boat (12:12) held an advantage throughout the first half of the race, leading the USRowing crew by four seconds at the race’s first marker. And though Harvard eventually settled for second place, the closest collegiate boat—Wisconsin—crossed the line more than 23 seconds after the Crimson in a distant fifth. Princeton finished sixth with a time...
Like nylon tights and oversized T-shirts with V-necks tied at the waist, political correctness is a thing of the past. It has, of late, come to acquire a reputation as a marker of prudishness, self-importance and over-sensitivity. While from time to time this reputation is well earned, it is truly disheartening to see examples of offensive and hurtful comments disregarded because of a general distaste for matters...
...borrowings (and thus are more vulnerable, as is the economy, to a fall in asset prices or a rise in interest rates). Under Howard and Costello, foreign debt has doubled to $A393 billion (equivalent to 50% of national output). No wonder voters think the cost of money is the marker for economic safe hands - they're geared to the back teeth, and interest rates will only have to rise by a few points to burn the most vulnerable. As soon as the economy cools, most households will renegotiate their consumer and home mortgage debts; those really pressed will experience...
Namibia has 3,000 cheetahs--the single largest remaining population in Africa--but ranchers shoot them for attacking cattle. Laurie Marker of the Cheetah Conservation Fund has been importing Anatolian shepherds, 160-lb. dogs bred in Turkey to protect livestock from wolves. She trains the Anatolians and then gives them to ranches, where they will stand their ground against the much smaller cheetah. Problem cheetahs that kill cattle are sometimes captured and fed an alternating diet of wild game and beef laced with lithium chloride. The beef sickens the cheetahs, persuading them to stick to wild meat...
...embryos are most likely to be successfully implanted. Such a test would reduce the number of tries needed to achieve pregnancy and allow doctors to implant fewer embryos, lowering the odds of having quadruplets or triplets. Sher doctors found that embryos that produce a high level of the genetic marker sHLA-G gave women a better than 60% pregnancy success rate--nearly double the current national average for IVF. The marker can be easily detected in the fluid surrounding each embryo...