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Although he managed 197 total yards, the Big Red once again held Dawson under 100 yards rushing. This, the fourth time Cornell has held Dawson below the century mark, brings his all-time average against the Big Red to 66 yards per game...Junior Matt Schindel kicked a career-long 42-yard field goal early in the second quarter after booming a 52-yard punt earlier in the game. He also saw a long extra point and a 33-yard field goal blocked, both by Cornell’s Chi Chi Madu...Nine different Harvard players caught passes Saturday...
...shock, kidney failure and death. Rehydration Oral rehydration solution (ORS) can reverse most cases of dehydration if given quickly. It can be made from one teaspoon of salt and eight teaspoons of sugar dissolved in a liter of water then administered gradually - at a cost of literally pennies per child. The Mechanism When ORS reaches the small intestine, the sodium-glucose co-transport pathway moves sugar from the hollow part of the intestine (lumen) to its lining (epithelium) through the villi. Sugar makes the salt absorption more efficient, and salt promotes water's absorption into the capillary-rich intestinal walls...
...build or renovate schools include sound amplification in their construction plans. Districts in other states are beginning to get on board. Last year Audio Enhancement of Bluffdale, Utah, the leading U.S. vendor of classroom sound systems, sold 15,000 of them, up from 7,000 in 2002. Typical cost per classroom: $1,500. Reno, Nev., has added the devices to 52 schools over the past two years, and Palm Beach County, Fla., is using a federal grant to pay for systems in 27 poorly performing schools...
While it is laudable that students and Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) are donating money to hunger relief, the amount stated, a meager $2.46 per student, does not sound like the actual amount charged per student meal. Since the article does not say, your readers have no way of knowing whether this is unvarnished generosity on the part of HUDS or if the University is keeping the lion’s share of the cost of those missed meals...
...helicopters, artillery, our snipers (much better than theirs), and every weapon that an infantryman can carry. Every day. Incredibly, I rarely see Ramadi in the news. We have as many attacks out here in the west as Baghdad. Yet, Baghdad has 7 million people, we have just 1.2 million. Per capita, al-Anbar province is the most violent place in Iraq by several orders of magnitude. I suppose it was no accident that the Marines were assigned this area...