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...year…If our guys wrestle their best at the end, then we’re doing something right.” A number of grapplers made strong showings to complete their campaigns, including junior heavyweight Andrew Knapp (7-13), who upset fifth-seeded Mike Sprigg in the first round of the EIWA championships. O’Connor (32-5) and Jantzen (14-3) took second in the tournament at 157 and 141 lbs. respectively, while Caputo (34-8) took third at 184, justifying the trio’s season-long ranking in the top 10. With solid competitors...
...facing Penn’s Bryan Ortenzio. The Quaker wrestler overcame Picarsic for the second time this year, ending the senior’s season with a 3-1 decision.For his part, Knapp surprised onlookers early with a 3-2 upset of Navy’s fifth-seeded Michael Sprigg. Although Knapp dropped his next bout, the junior earned one more win on the weekend for a 2-2 overall showing.The final Harvard competitor to make a statement was freshman Walter Peppelman (149). The rookie continues to seek that elusive “Big Win,” but rebounded...
...Sprigg, who was in the meetings, came away impressed with Merck's handling of their questions. Its representatives, he said, "expressed sympathy with our concern that this not be distributed with an accompanying message that this makes it safe to have sex. They acknowledged the limits of the vaccine, that it does not target all strains of HPV, or any other sexually transmitted diseases." During public hearings on the vaccine held by the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) in February, the Family Research Council representative applauded the vaccine, hoped that health care professionals would enforce the message...
...Sprigg denies that this is all a clever campaign to praise progress in public while derailing it behind closed doors. "We have no objection to it being part of the recommended standard of care," he says. Nor does his group object to Gardasil being covered by the federal Vaccines for Children program, which pays for immunizing uninsured and underinsured families. "So that should be sufficient to assure widespread distribution of the vaccine...
...another possibility is that both sides reflexively clenched their fists for a brawl, even when there wasn't much of a fundamental disagreement. Sprigg contends that there's "a theme running through liberal criticism of the Bush Administration and conservatives in general that they are anti-science. This a theme they'll point to on things as disparate as global warming, intelligent design, RU-486. I think people with that mindset just latched onto this, thinking it looked like a good example of that theme...