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Though the Bears exploited Harvard’s normally stellar penalty kill—the Crimson entered the game above 94 percent—going 2-for-3 on the power play, both squads spent significantly less time in the penalty box than was the norm. Each team had only three penalties for six minutes...
...should become a professional norm, a matter of ethics, even if you’re still as effective as you already were, to retire by about 72,” Thompson says...
...program will nearly eliminate the possibility of visitors forging travel documents, a dangerous practice that is currently all too easy. Biometrics is the vanguard of identification technology, and the U.S. is pioneering a system that will soon become the norm. Within a few decades, passports of most—if not all—countries will contain biometric information, contributing to the security of the whole world and the peace of mind of all travellers...
Looking out over 45 acres of pens with 7,000 head of cattle, feedlot owner Norm Haaland is concerned but philosophical. From his second-story vantage point at TBone Feeders in Shepherd, Mont., he watches corn trucks rumble in to dump loads of feed. He is worried about the fallout from the mad-cow crisis, but his cattlemen customers are more concerned about the recent U.S. decision to allow imports of boxed beef from Canada as long as it comes from cattle younger than 30 months. "The big packers are making a killing up there, buying Canadian cattle from...
Harvard College Democrats President Andy J. Frank ’05 contends that Bush’s low approval ratings are nothing out of the norm...