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...Pitt News case, the college daily at the University of Pittsburgh challenged a Pennsylvania state law barring alcohol advertisements in student newspapers. A three-judge appellate panel struck down the law, ruling that it violated the newspaper’s First Amendment rights...
...nation last year, Harvard’s blueline corps returns four of its six starters in seniors Hafner and Tom Walsh, junior Reese, and sophomore David MacDonald. Gone are Noah Welch ’05 and Ryan Lannon ’05, two stalwarts now in the Pittsburgh Penguins organization...
...Chicken of the Sea--which account for 85% of the tuna sold in the U.S.--are fighting back with plans for a marketing campaign that will spotlight the nutritional benefits of the low-fat, no-carb and omega-3-rich seafood. Test runs of TV and radio commercials in Pittsburgh, Pa., and St. Louis, Mo., for the proposed "Tuna. Smart catch" campaign last year temporarily boosted sales with their implied message that you can have your tuna and eat it too--safely. The ads omitted the neurotoxin issue altogether...
Economists Lise Vesterlund of the University of Pittsburgh and Muriel Niederle of Stanford University conducted a study in which they assembled 40 men and 40 women, gave them five minutes to add up as many two-digit numbers as they could, and paid them 50¢ for each correct answer. The subjects were not competing against one another but simply playing against the house. Later, the game was changed to a tournament in which the subjects were divided into teams of two men or two women each. Winning teams got $2 per computation; losers got nothing. Men and women performed equally...
PREDICTOR Pittsburgh Pirates manager Jim Leyland and the Boston Globe PREDICTION ''Jim Leyland has been saying the Mets are the team that could run away ((with the National League East championship)). He's right.'' WHAT HAPPENED The Mets finished the season with 100 losses for the first time since...