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...Televisa has dismissed 1,500 employees, or 6% of its work force, since December. ``Most people prefer to buy food rather than cigarettes,'' says Consuelo Docal de Rojas, who owns a struggling candy and tobacco shop in Mexico City and rents out apartments above the store. ``People can't scrape up cash to cover even necessities.'' At the same time, she adds, ``all my tenants are behind on their rent...
...intensive study of existing sites, are constantly giving archaeologists more information to work with. Also, dating techniques are becoming more refined. It used to be that scientists needed to test a large sample of paint to pinpoint its age. And, says anthropologist Margaret Conkey, "no one was willing to scrape a bison's rump off the wall." Now it takes only a tiny sample. French prehistory expert Arlette Leroi-Gourhan estimates dates by using pollen particles preserved on cave floors...
That's right, Columbia. The same Columbia that the Crimson beat 39-32 earlier this season. The same Columbia that has to scrape and claw every year for even one win in league play. The same Columbia that is widely considered to be the losingest program in college football...
This is a world in which sufficient funds for scholarships and program development are hard to come by, a world in which athletic departments must scrape and save for financial security, a world in which not all schools will are able to pay for grown men to put on pads and beat the hell out of each other on Saturday afternoons...
...lendie (Lena M. Diethelm): Kathleen was my friend. She wasn't a saint, she was a scientist ... Watching her online sometimes was like watching a kid learning to ride a bike. She'd keep trying, she'd keep falling down, she'd scrape her virtual knees, brush them off and get right back on for the ride...