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Until the money is made available, some states are taking matters into their own hands. Nebraska passed legislation last September to improve its public-health system, earmarking $6 million from its share of the national tobacco settlement to establish five new health departments that cover 19 of the state's 93 counties. Texas is relying on revenue from the state's telecommunications fund to wire itself for the Health Alert Network. Georgia, which had been given CDC grants to fight such problems as West Nile virus and emerging infections, decided that the best way to do that was to hire...
Instead, when the No. 20 Tigers pulled out a 31-20 upset over No. 2 Tennessee, the answer to an enigmatic college football season was still missing. Colorado? Nebraska? Oregon? Hell, how about Maryland? Actually, forget Maryland...
When the computers completed calculating and the writers finished tabulating, No. 4 Nebraska clinched the second spot in the (mythical) national title game, beating out No. 3 Colorado by .05 points, a margin much closer than the 62-37 massacre the Huskers endured at the hands of the Buffs just three weeks...
That’s right. As much as Nebraska fans love Crouch, it was a Conference USA quarterback that was responsible for salvaging the Huskers’ season...
...awards since matriculating at Harvard, but at Phillips he attended MOSP (please, the “s” is silent) —the Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program hosted by the U.S. Math Team (“as important as Olympic athletes”) at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. “We did math about 40 hours a week,” he states proudly...