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...consecutive home games at Ohiri Field, going 1-2-1 in the longest homestand it would have. It lost the season opener to Providence, 3-2, in overtime on a golden goal. This first game embodied a fall season in which Harvard showed flashes of brilliance but found itself prey to mediocrity and mental lapses...
Indeed, 70 years after the founding of the House system, the program originally intended to bring faculty into student residences has fallen prey to the rapidly ballooning commitments of modern life...
...country at large is brushing and flossing itself into a frenzy. So why are some Americans still falling prey to poor oral health? According to a sweeping report issued Thursday by the Surgeon General's office, a disproportionate number of minorities and low-income Americans suffer from cavities, gum disease and oral cancer - even as the rest of the nation continues to chalk up victories over the same ailments. Close to half of the nation's poor blacks and Hispanics have untreated tooth decay, compared with 27 percent of poor whites. Researchers are blaming the disparity on a combination...
...University's administration is all too aware of the delicate balance required to handle an issue as explosive as this. "Sports are an industry of public interest and public passion," explains Deborah Crown, professor of management at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. "Indiana University doesn't want to fall prey to doing what the public wants just because it's the popular thing to do; they want to do what's best for the university." On the bright side, after Monday's meeting and the painstaking negotiations that reportedly led up to it, Knight is now wholly responsible...
...their friends) believe that it takes a truckload of gear to properly outfit a nursery. But while some of these products are useful, a surprising number seem designed to remove parents from the actualities of dealing with their baby's bodily functions. Some products are simply wasteful. Some prey on parents' fears. And some are potentially dangerous--moving the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission last week to start hanging recall notices in post offices...