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...lineup, freshman Alistair Felton competed at No. 2, while co-captain Michael Kalfayan returned to the lineup for the first time since February.“I think we went out there like tigers,” said co-captain Chris Clayton, who is currently No. 65 in the nation. “You roll with [the changes]—you never know what the season’s going to give you, and we’ve been handling it well.” HARVARD 4, WILLIAM & MARY 3 Looking to rebound from Saturday’s loss...
...doctors themselves who have been slow to espouse the system. Major pharmacy chains now accept electronic prescriptions and use software to detect drug-drug interactions, but only about 10% to 15% of physicians nationwide have swapped their prescription pads for computers. "How can you make the nation's health system electronic when you haven't even had an area or a city to show that they can do it?" says Stephen Klasko, dean of the college of medicine at the University of South Florida and an architect of Tampa's effort. "We will become proof of concept that...
...laconic flatlands of North Dakota - Senator Kent Conrad - warned on March 10 that Obama's $3.6 trillion budget is already in trouble on Capitol Hill. Democrats may be in power, but they aren't all in agreement with Obama's do-it-all-now approach to solving the nation's most persistent problems. "Anybody who thinks it will be easy to get the votes on the budget in the conditions that we face is smoking something," Conrad declared...
...ordinary citizens into a massive forced-planting campaign, according to human-rights groups. While my friend has enough money to pay for the mandatory seeds, many other Burmese aren't so lucky. Those who refuse to farm physic nut face possible jail time. By the end of 2008, the nation's top brass aimed to have 8 million acres (3.24 million ha) of jatropha scattered across Burma, some in vast plantations run by foreign companies, others wedged into home gardens or between shacks. (See pictures of Burma after Cyclone Nargis...
...mechanisms, processing plants, distribution systems. My friend dutifully tends his jatropha trees and then watches the seeds fall on the ground and die. In his case, the spindly physic-nut shrubs in his garden are supplanting a fragrant frangipani tree or colorful hibiscus bush. But elsewhere in Burma - a nation where UNICEF estimates malnutrition afflicts one-third of children - farmers have had to put aside valuable crop land for a wasted plant...