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Sinnott was crowned the next "Miss Boston" on Mar. 31, placing her one step away from competing in the national "Miss America" contest next year. Although the Marine-to-be is new to the pageant circuit, she said in an interview this week that competing in pageants "keeps things balanced...
...Although Sanjaya was only in the middle of the pack for last week's vote (tabulated by phone calls and text messages for the week ending Mar. 31, 2007), on the Web he was the most searched for Idol contestant of the season, garnering more than twice the volume of searches than his nearest rival (not counting the continuing quests for racy photos of Antonella Barba, who is no longer in the competition...
...retracted products, because of the possibility it may have used contaminated wheat gluten. And Menu Foods Ltd. - which announced its first recall of 60 million dog and cat food products packaged under various brand names three weeks ago - extended the recall date to foods made between Nov. 8 and Mar...
...Between Mar. 25 and Apr. 1, nine students and one staff member from Harvard Hillel traveled to the Gulf Coast to aid in the post-Katrina relief effort. The group was joined by approximately 80 volunteers from Hillel chapters of five universities. Together, the volunteers worked in Chalmette, La., gutting houses to prepare them for restoration...
...According to a study published in the Mar. 28 issue of Human Genetics, two sperm fertilized one egg and created the twins. The phenomenon occurs in about 1% of the population, but most embryos created in this way - called triploids because they have three sets of chromosomes - do not live. Says Dr. Mary Jane Minkin, a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Yale University: "This confirms that two sperm can get into an egg." Normally the cell dies. But Minkin makes a valid point: "Never say never in medicine and biology...