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...down the Tiger defense again and again for layups and threes to keep the team in the game.“I don’t think Princeton’s guards have ever been able to stay in front of Drew,” Lin said.But the 80-percent free throw shooter missed three big free throws in the final five minutes, which could have brought the home team closer. The shots all went in the bucket, and somehow bounced out, leaving the senior to scratch his head.“He was tremendous tonight, breaking the team down...
...pull within 26-24. The Crimson responded by finishing the half with a 6-0 run to take a 34-26 lead going into the second stanza. After the first half, both teams were evenly matched on the stat sheet, but the Crimson outshot the Quakers 50 to 20 percent from beyond the arc and 78-40 percent from the free throw line. “We weathered their scoring runs well,” Delaney-Smith said. “Christine hit some big shots, so did Brogran, Tay and Markley, while everyone stepped up on defense...
...Small World After All. From 2004 to 2007, world travel grew an average of 7% a year, but that ain't gonna be true this year. The U.N. World Tourism Organization predicts the number of tourists, which reached about 924 million last year, might decline by up to 2 percent in 2009, with Europe and the Americas hit the hardest. At least the beaches in Bora Bora will be less crowded...
...second week of February. Massachusetts, with its myriad research hospitals and universities, is the nation’s largest recipient of NIH funding per capita and is second only to California in overall funding. In 2007, Massachusetts received $2.2 billion in NIH funding—roughly 10 percent of NIH’s $22.8 billion spent on extramural research. Harvard received $1.4 billion, or 60 percent of the state’s allocation. Casey said he believed the stimulus represented a “substantial infusion of funds” for scientific research, and added that the money would have...
Brandeis's decision to sell its art collection in order to make ends meet is all too indicative of the larger problems facing universities as donations dry up and endowments plummet in this dismal economic climate. On average, university endowments have dropped 23 percent in only five months...