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Several swimmers notched “lifetime bests” in the meet, including co-captain Sam Wollner, who started off the meet with a bang, nailing a personal best time of 4:24.49 to en route to a fourth-place finish in the 500 freestyle, the first individual meet of the event...
...What the freshman class really does is fill in the gaps we were missing,” co-captain Sam Wollner added. “The class gives us a lot of depth and wiggle room for the top guns...
...produced by 40 people?My room is eerily dark when I return to it—the new light bulbs are only to be turned on when I’m home. Still, I’m the reluctant, thorny plant in our thriving green house. “Sam, what do we do with batteries when we throw them out?” my roommate asks about once a month, sounding like a worn-out mother. The message: Environmental disasters can strike at any moment. They’re as near as the Duracell sitting in the hallway waste...
...doing everything possible to stop the spread," says Dr. Sam Zaramba, Uganda's top health official. For weeks, Uganda's health ministry released statements about a "mysterious" virus plaguing Bundibugyo, a western region on the border with the Congo. Uganda experienced an outbreak of the Marburg virus - a rare Ebola-like hemorrhagic fever - this summer, raising speculation that the disease had returned. Ebola was last in Uganda in 2000, when 425 people were infected, and over half, including a doctor, died...
...fever and muscle pain. Humans, chimpanzees and gorillas usually die of shock when the virus attacks capillaries and blood vessel linings, draining the body of blood in a vampire-like manner. The new Ugandan strain kills patients by inducing high fever, without much loss of blood, according to Dr. Sam Okware, head of Uganda's national hemorrhagic fever task force...