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Over the past several years, the women's Beanpot hockey tournament has taken on a distinct pattern...
...present pattern of women's Beanpot play was first set in the 1984 tournament. Harvard and Northeastern shut out their opposition in the first round. In the consolation game, B.C. blanked B.U. In the final, the Huskies zipped the Crimson...
...proved antibody-positive, meaning that their mothers almost certainly were infected. About 90% of the affected children were born in New York City. Previous surveys have indicated that many such mothers are poor, black or Hispanic women from neighborhoods where intravenous drug abuse is rampant, confirming a demographic pattern established by a similar study in Massachusetts published last year. Not all of these newborns, however, are doomed. Doctors estimate that more than half received only antibodies -- not the virus itself -- from their mothers during gestation. These lucky ones will not develop AIDS. The others, however, will eventually sicken, most before...
Among the nine were Drug Barons Rafael Caro Quintero, 35, and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, 56, reputed leaders of Mexico's largest marijuana smuggling family and the principal targets of Camarena's investigations. Also charged, in what has become a familiar pattern of complicity between drug operators and those charged with stamping out their trade, were three former Mexican police officials. "In what we do for a living we depend on the integrity of our law enforcement counterparts," said DEA Chief John Lawn. "In the case of Kiki Camarena, that mutual trust failed...
Despite the relaxed official stance, building a church in Poland is still enough to tax the patience -- and ingenuity -- of a saint. In a pattern that is typical for the country, architects and many of the others involved must squeeze their work on church projects into spare time after doing their official work on state-commissioned schools and apartment blocks. A chronic shortage of building materials is the biggest problem. Some parishes hire a staffer to forage throughout the country full time on the trail of everything from nails to cement. State-run factories are under orders to avoid selling...