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...have a young team,” he admits, “but playing with them on the ice and playing against them, they have a lot of skill. I really don’t think I’ll have to pick up a lot of slack on the scoring, because we have a lot of guys on our team that can score goals right...
...only major contributor not returning to the bench for Clarkson this season. Senior trio Mac Faulkner, Chris Blight and Jay Latulippe will be counted on for offensive performances mirroring those they turned in a season ago,but they’d better pick up Nickerson’s scoring slack as well, else the Golden Knights certainly won’t be returning to the ECAC championship game...
...start planning for the 2005-06 flu season, and it's still unclear whether the U.S. will be in any better shape next year. Chiron says it isn't sure its production problems will be resolved by then, and no other drugmaker has stepped forward to take up the slack. One thing is certain: if nothing changes, we'll have flu vaccine shortages for years to come. --Reported by Perry Bacon Jr. and Elaine Shannon/Washington, Matthew Cooper/ with Bush, Paige Bowers/Atlanta, Simon Crittle and Sora Song/New York, Helen Gibson/London, Chris Maag/Cleveland, Ursula Sautter/Bonn and Monique Stringfellow/Paris
...Alex Slack ’06 is a history concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
This trend is seemingly out of step with the national picture, where the number of applicants to medical school increases during a shrinking or sluggish economy. But where the figures for undergraduate matriculation to medical school have fallen, the alumni numbers have picked up the slack. From 1996-2002, the trends in application numbers for alumni and graduating seniors are roughly parallel. As undergraduate numbers decreased in 2003-—the most recent data available—the alumni applicants increased 16 percent from the previous year. Overall, 2003 actually saw an increase in the number of Harvard affiliates...