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...think we may be at a slight disadvantage because we don't have a turf field and we've been inside all week," Rollins said. "I think Cornell has been outside the past few days, because it has a field it can just plow. But our lack of time outside shouldn't make that big of a difference...
Johns Hopkins Medical School, ranked second in the U.S. behind HMS, also saw a slight decrease in 1997 applicants. Admissions officers at at the school reported between 200 to 300 fewer applicants this year...
...bond market benefitted from those fears, with yields on 30-year Treasury bonds hitting 7.06 percent, up from 6.98 percent late Wednesday. Key victims of the frenzied sell-off included heavy weights Allied Signal, 3M, Exxon, Coca-Cola and Procter &Gamble. The dollar, meanwhile, also suffered, taking a slight dive to close at 123.48 yen and 1.6898 marks...
More than a thousand calls came into the National Enquirer's Ennis Cosby hot line after the paper posted a $100,000 reward in the case. One came just a few days after the Jan. 16 murder, when an edgy informant with a slight foreign accent got on the phone with a junior reporter in the Enquirer's Los Angeles office. "You guys are the ones who did the O.J. Simpson case," the caller said as he divulged information about a man who had admitted shooting an African American with a .38-cal. gun in the same area where Cosby...
...duplication of Earhart's failed 1937 journey. Flint will use global positioning satellite technology to pinpoint her location, VHF radio communications to expedite landings and take-offs and an in-cabin computer to communicate via e-mail with school children following her flight on the Internet. Other than a slight detour over northern Africa to avoid political unrest in Sudan, Finch's flight route will follow precisely the path taken by Earhart. Waving breezily to reporters, Finch says she has no jitters about her 29,000 mile flight. The original Earhart flight ended in disaster after 22,000 miles when...