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Along with Lonergan, the Big Green boasts 7'0" center Brain Gilpin, who enters the game second in the Ivies in blocked shots with 1.67 per game. He is also ninth in the league in scoring and is used to having his way in the paint...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: M. Basketball Begins Ivy League Season Versus Dartmouth | 12/17/1996 | See Source »

...media has a responsibility to paint a true picture of the importance of basic research, especially cancer research. Medicine can eliminate few diseases completely with a magic bullet as it did polio (which the World Health Organization believes has been eliminated through vaccines.) But it can significantly improve the prognosis for patients, as it does for diabetics who can lead a near-normal lifestyle without a cure. In this war against cancer, we do not have to decimate the enemy to win. Each small achievement is a victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The War Against Cancer | 12/14/1996 | See Source »

Since the start of renovation in early June, HSA dealt with an oil spill under the building and had to remove lead paint and asbestos from the original structure. Explosive chemicals were also found in the basement, remnants from an old chemistry lab which was part of the high school that used to be located in the building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HSA, Let's Go Move To 67 Mt. Auburn St. | 12/11/1996 | See Source »

...second half with the aid of poor free throw shooting by the Terriers (13/22). Harvard's offense, however, consisted almost solely of the three-point shot, and B.U. effectively denied the ball from the hot-handed Beam. Harvard got no easy points, either, scoring only two points in the paint in the first 18 minutes of the second half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men's Cagers Zapped by Terriers in Second Half | 12/11/1996 | See Source »

Ruth Stoops (Laura Dern) has four kids she hardly ever sees and dozens of convictions for snorting paint thinner. Now she is pregnant again, and an exasperated judge has told her to get an abortion or go to jail. That's enough to make Ruth a human placard for rival zanies: a band of pro-lifers called the Baby Savers (led by Reynolds) and a cell of pro-choice lesbians (Swoosie Kurtz and Kelly Preston). You can expect the competing passions to cancel one another out. And you can count on Stoops to conquer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: NO STEVE BUSCEMI PART? | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

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