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...performances, advancing three players into the final rounds of one tournament and two into the quarterfinals of another. The Crimson sent three players to the Seminole Invitational in Tallahassee, Fla., seven players to Dartmouth’s Big Green Invitational in Hanover, N.H., and it sent co-captain Dan Nguyen to ITA National Indoor Championships in Columbus, Ohio.The weekend’s matches were the team’s last before its long winter layoff, which continues until late January. As such, they were an opportunity for the players to build positive momentum and to uncover any weaknesses that...
...fetus. But the laws are all but impossible to enforce. Every expectant mother somehow learns whether she is expecting a boy or a girl. Abortions are readily available for around $5 in government clinics. "We must expand our propaganda activities to educate people aching to have boys," says Nguyen Ba Thuy, deputy minister of health. Other Asian countries have seen the sex imbalance towards boys reverse, including South Korea, one of the first countries to report the missing-girls phenomenon. In recent years the skewed gender balance in that country has reversed down to near-natural ratios, thanks in part...
...compete in the 96-man singles main draw and two doubles pairs competed in the 42-pair doubles tournament. The top 32 seeds in singles received first-round byes, and the top 16 teams got a free pass in doubles. The Crimson was led by co-captains Dan Nguyen and Chris Clayton. After his first-round bye, No. 4 seed Clayton dropped only one set through his three matches and disposed of 13th seed Artem Vlasenko of St. John’s in straight sets (6-1, 6-3) in the round of 16 yesterday to reach the today?...
...year, the state power company, Electricity of Vietnam (EVN), needs to double its capacity to an estimated 26,000 megawatts by 2010. Vietnam's hydropower potential is nearly exhausted - the 2,400-megawatt Son La dam now under construction is the last feasible major project, EVN spokesman Nguyen Duc Long says. Prices for natural gas, another fuel source for electrical generators, are up 15-20% over last year, and domestic gas reserves are too small to meet demand. Vietnam is planning nuclear power plants, but the first won't be ready until 2020. Coal, on the other hand, is readily...
...semifinals before losing to top-seeded Penn State, 5-2, in a match that was much closer than the final score indicated. Harvard’s players took their opponents to three sets in five of the six singles matches against the Nittany Lions, though only co-captain Dan Nguyen and freshman Alexei Chijoff-Evans managed to squeeze out victories. This tournament was the first this season in which Harvard’s players competed as a team, and the strong performance up and down the lineup—including at least one victory from three freshmen—sent...