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...Shen is hopeful that the visit will spur renewed international interest in China...
...senior goaltender Ed Chen and captain Andy Davis. Both have stepped up their levels of play in the absence of All-American Mike Zimmerman, who is out for the remainder of the season with torn ligaments in his right hand. Davis contributed a goal Wednesday night and continues to spur on a team which has been dealt a hardy hand of adversity thus far in the season...
Running parallel to a steam tunnel spur for most of its length, the dining-services tunnel is about eight feet high and 15 feet wide...
...Redux and fenfluramine are too powerful for the body to handle--a proposition not fully accepted by some doctors despite the FDA and manufacturers' action--research into serotonin-boosting drugs is hardly slowing down. If anything, the discovery of a new set of side effects will spur researchers to hone their pharmacological handiwork even more, to create medicines that will not just fine-tune the way serotonin is used in the brain but might target specific serotonin receptors as well or act on only specific parts of the brain and nervous system...
...Mark Viken. "It's a portable, digital replacement for the cassette, to take music on the go and make your own compilations. We didn't explain it clearly." Now Sony is trying to make itself better understood. It has relaunched the Mini with a national ad campaign, hoping to spur the 10-fold increase in sales seen in last fall's test markets and help the U.S. join an expected burgeoning world market. "The cassette and the CD didn't explode in the early years," Viken points out. "In the '90s, I think we're all a little impatient...