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...beat out fellow junior T.J. Nyland to succeed the illustrious Walland, does not have the mobility of his predecessor, but does possess a powerful arm. On the season, the 6'5 junior has thrown for 17 touchdowns and is just 40 yards shy of the 2,000 passing yard plateau...
Penn secured its 725th victory in school history this weekend by defeating Lafayette (1-2) in front of a home crowd in Philadelphia. The Quakers (1-1, 0-0 Ivy) took a quick 24-7 lead against their fellow Pennsylvania counterparts, with Gavin Hoffman reaching the 300-yard plateau in passing for the second straight week. Hoffman completed 24 of 34 attempts, including a four-yard pass to Doug O'Neill in the closing minutes to seal the victory...
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE www.foe.org.hk Braving the threat of high-altitude sickness, Chinese volunteers are traveling to the Qinghai Tibetan Plateau, the source of the Yangtze and Yellow rivers, to plant drought-resistant shrubs and trees intended to halt soil erosion. They are also sending bottles downstream with messages urging water conservation and an end to logging in critical areas along the river...
...that will change this summer when an easy to apply testosterone ointment, AndroGel, becomes generally available for the first time by prescription. The company that developed it, Illinois-based Unimed Pharmaceuticals, promises that because AndroGel is administered once or more a day, it will produce a more even plateau of testosterone, avoiding the ups and downs of the shots. Though the body's own production of this hormone trails off gradually in men after the age of 30 or so, not many men now seek testosterone-replacement therapy (not that they necessarily need to) or even get their T levels...
...however, could be considerable. After their collective huffing and puffing in Vienna this week, it looks like OPEC's 11 member countries will agree to boost production by 1.7 million barrels a day, a less-than-monumental increase designed to stabilize prices at their current level. This new price plateau, says Robert Kaufmann, professor at the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Boston University, will probably mean few broad-reaching economic ramifications. "Emphasis on 'probably,'" says Kaufmann. "We've seen these prices before, although not for so sustained a period. But in and of themselves, they won't create...