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...first weekend of spring break, the Harvard men's and women's throwers and the women's hurdlers flew down to Texas Southern for the first outdoor meet of the season. The Crimson faced off against the top athletes from Houston, Oklahoma State, Rice, and the Southwestern Athletic Conference. Team scores were not tabulated for the meet...
...400m intermediate hurdles, Taylor lost by three hundredths of a second to freshman Elicia Hepburn of Southwestern Christian. Taylor clocked...
...Microsoft proffered a deal last week that would have separated the company's Internet browser from its Windows operating system. The government rejected the offer, saying it did not go far enough in curbing Microsoft's monopoly control over the technology industry. Of course, says Professor Warren Grimes of Southwestern University Law School in Los Angeles, even if Judge Jackson does rule against Microsoft, that will hardly be the end of the story. "Jackson won't retry the case," says Grimes, "but he will hold more hearings to determine what kind of punishment should be levied against the company...
...Yorker humorist into a serious but never somber chronicler of the American heartland. In On the Rez (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 311 pages; $25) Frazier entertainingly continues this investigation, although his interest is now concentrated on a specific patch of the wide-open spaces, the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, home of the Oglala Sioux. Why this place and these people? While researching Great Plains, Frazier met and became friends with Le War Lance, a Sioux man with colorful if not always credible stories of his own exploits and of his people back at Pine Ridge. Before long, Frazier...
...pieces of those cells have been shown to boost the body's immune system, helping it recognize and kill tumors on its own. "This was all a dream five years ago," marvels John Minna, director of the Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas...