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Eight Harvard wrestlers have been sidelined briefly during the recent rash of ailments...
Many of the rash killings are truly senseless. Last week a 14-year-old Brooklyn girl was charged with stabbing her 13-year-old boyfriend to death simply because he wanted to break up with her. In September a 23-year-old Chicago woman was convicted of the drive-by shooting of a teenage boy at a fast-food restaurant. Reason: he was wearing the colors of a rival gang. Her two-month-old twin daughters were sitting in the backseat of her car when she pulled the trigger...
Despite their landslide victory in Albania's first free elections last spring, the old communist rulers have had trouble holding on to power as the wave of reform sweeps over Europe's poorest and most isolated country. Reincarnated as the Socialist Party, they were forced by a rash of strikes to enter into a coalition with the opposition Democratic Party in June. Last week Democratic leader Sali Berisha charged his governing partners with "attempting to create a neodictatorship" and pulled his seven ministers out of the 21-member Cabinet...
...instance, in 1986. Harvard and Yale sociologists found that college-educated women over the age of 30 had a sharply decreasing chance of marriage, down to 1.3 percent at the age of 40. These widely publicized findings led to a rash of marriage anxiety among American women and a proliferation of books and workshops offering to help them beat the odds...
...called heroic measures, such as expensive life | support for babies born after less than 23 weeks of gestation and weighing less than 500 g (1.1 lbs.). Nor will it pay for self-curing ailments -- now covered -- like the common cold, food poisoning, sprains and simple diaper rash. And, of course, the patient who needs spinal disc surgery, No. 588 on the list, may be out of luck...