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...Thailand is now ranked 116th by world soccer body FIFA, thanks to erratic and occasionally farcical performances that date back to the team's notorious match against Indonesia at the 1998 ASEAN championships. Both teams set out to lose, since the winner would play a stronger team in the next round. Indonesia lost 3-2 after deliberately scoring against themselves. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the Thai national team has a less than fanatical following. Only 25,000 spectators went to watch the team play Japan in Bangkok earlier this year - and most of those were Japanese. (Thailand lost...
Bassett’s strong play this year was displayed at its finest in a Nov. 1 match-up against Princeton. She recorded a career-high four points, including two goals and two assists, in the Crimson’s 6-4 victory over the Tigers...
...take the lead, the Fighting Sioux responded with goals of its own to swing the momentum of the game back its way. Case in point: although the Crimson scored eight seconds into the third period, North Dakota struck just five minutes later to come back to win the match by scoring twice within 90 seconds...
...malaria, which has for so long had its way with us, may at last have met its pharmaceutical match. Two breakthrough papers published early Monday morning in the New England Journal of Medicine report the success of a pair of new vaccines tested in groups of children in Africa. That could open the door to sweeping trials of the vaccines in seven African nations by early 2009 and a completed formulation ready for approval by 2011. "We are," says Dr. Christian Loucq, director of the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, "one step closer to the day when malaria will join diseases...
...tournament,” Crimson coach Peter Brand said. “It bodes well that he did well being rusty, still coming out ahead in a very tough competition. The loss against Princeton...I think if he was in top form he would’ve won that match.” The team also took a hit with freshman epee fencer James Hawrot gone competing at a world cup tournament attempting to make the junior world championship team. “This was an important event for him,” Brand said. “His teammates...