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...downer is that a pyramid payoff requires an ever larger supply of new investors, until eventually the scheme crashes. To protect the unwary, pyramid games have been made illegal in most states. Even so, the craze has spread on college campuses: at the University of Maryland, automated teller machines ran short of cash this month after one high-flying weekend...
...assess rigorously pets' impact on physical and mental health. Meanwhile, the beneficiaries of programs in prisons, hospitals and nursing homes do not much care about cool science but are warmly grateful for what amounts to animal therapy. A groundbreaking study came in 1980, when researchers from the Universities of Maryland and Pennsylvania reported on the survival rate of 92 patients with serious heart trouble. Of the 39 without pets, eleven were dead within a year. The remaining 53 had animals ranging from an iguana and Bantams to the typical cats, dogs and fish; just three of those patients died...
...home where the buffalo roam would be a darn sight more profitable than a busted ranch. Or so thinks Robert Scott, who has proposed turning the 15,000- sq.-mi. Big Open area of east-central Montana into a game park the size of Maryland with half of New Jersey thrown...
...five-minute lapse immediately following that score cost Harvard the contest. Maryland was able to put four shots on net in that stretch to take an 8-5 advantage from which the Crimson could not recover...
Yesterday, Harvard got another chance against Maryland, and the team was able to pull out a tie. Overall, the Crimson won most of its tourney games, and was able to give some of its younger players--10 of the squad's members are freshmen--a chance to gain playing experience...