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...third and fourth frames, with Fitz and McKiernan taking their turns in the rotation, Harvard reduced its number of errors and started playing better defense. Preventing Rivier from taking several points in a row, the Crimson was able to open up a small margin and scrape its way to a 30-28 victory. “In game three, we never let them take that big run,” Fitz said. “We got the two-point lead, and we never gave it up.” Harvard maintained its level of play in the fourth frame...
...third. Out back, just past where the refrigerator now stands, was a large pen that held up to 70 pigs. Besides tending the pigs, Lucila's husband grew corn and beans and did odd jobs as a tailor. Lucila taught knitting classes at her house to help the family scrape...
...more money they dispatch. "There is enormous social pressure to send money home," says Khalid Koser, a geography professor at University College London, who in October co-authored a report for the Global Commission on International Migration in Geneva, which researches governments' immigration policies. Koser found that many migrants scrape by in first-world cities, depriving themselves of basic comforts in order to "keep people alive" back home. "There are many people sending 40% of their income in remittances," he says, adding that many families save to pay the passage of a migrant to richer parts of Asia...
...faces, but their posture suggests they have been standing there a long time, contemplating the sight of Shanghai's biggest tourist attraction, a shiny visual shorthand for national ambitions: height, wealth, modernity, progress. Yet in Delano's picture, the towers appear faint and far away. They don't scrape the sky so much as leach into it. Maybe they're about to come into focus, maybe they'll fade out completely. We can't tell which...
...University, immediately informed provincial health authorities that AIDS had somehow broken out of the usual high-risk groups--homosexual men, intravenous-drug users and commercial-sex workers--and infiltrated the general population. But the mystery remained: How had this "foreigner's disease" come to infect poor rice farmers who scrape by on 2,000 yuan ($250) a year and rarely leave their village...