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Harvard (5-8 overall, 1-3 Ivy) has had its difficulties this season and is currently nursing a three-game losing streak. Harvard's 3-1 loss to the University of New Hampshire is characteristic of the Crimson's season. The problem can be stated simply: the Crimson is simply not putting enough runs up on the scoreboard. Harvard has scored only seven runs during its current three-game losing streak...
Hochanadel reiterated the now-familar problem that Harvard has been having with runs: close but not close enough. The Crimson has been involved in six games this season that have been decided by one or two runs...
...problem with running an auction site where anybody can put anything up for sale is that sooner or later they will. So it was that eBay officials found themselves Thursday confronting a particularly cringe-inducing entry: item #153213066, billed as a "Fully functional kidney for sale." "You can choose either kidney," the description read. "Buyer pays all transplant and medical costs. Of course, only one for sale, as I need the other one to live. Serious bids only." The listing had been up since August 26 and the bidding had been intense, running from $25,000 up to $5.7 million...
...designed to prevent the exploitation of poor people, which makes selling your organs a felony punishable by up to five years in prison or a $50,000 fine. EBay says it has no system for filtering what people put up, and acts only after members alert them to a problem (the company banned firearms this spring after a public outcry). With close to 6 million users posting to the site, the company says there's no way to stay on top of every listing, and if the company tried, it could be liable for anything that got through. Like...
...doctors reported difficulties finding a job after their internships were completed. Much of the reason for this is that most doctors want to live in or near big cities, not in the vast rural sections of the country that are chronically short on good medical care. So the real problem is not applications but distribution. You can lead a kid to med school, but you can't make him practice in South Texas...