Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saturday night at Bright Center, the Harvard hockey team added another entry to the "Things you can do in five seconds" list. Within the span of only five ticks of the clock in the third period, Harvard scored two goals and defeated RPI, 6-4, in the final night of its ECAC quarterfinal series...
With her team leading, 21-18, in the first half, Duncan sparked Harvard's 10-0 run over a four minute span with a pair of steals, a couple of buckets and some excellent defense on Yale's leading scorer, Randi Meberg...
...last week's 6-5 loss to Harvard, St. Lawrence scored three goals in a span of less than two minutes...
...each advancement in medical technology, the possibility of extending people's lives increases. Who is to decide who should get the organ transplant or have first access to kidney-dialysis machines? The questions have fired a debate about what society owes its elderly, what should constitute a natural life-span and how far doctors should go to keep elderly patients alive. Medical Ethicist Daniel Callahan, 57, suggests that health involves more than preventing death. "We should seek to advance research and health care that increase not the length of life," he argues, "but the quality of life of the elderly...
...upper limit of human life -- now about 115 to 120 years of age -- but to make the lives of the elderly less burdensome physically and more rewarding emotionally. "The new focus," says Dr. John Rowe, director of the division on aging at Harvard Medical School, "is not on life-span but on health- span...