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Though the Harvard men’s golf team entered yesterday’s second round of the Yale Spring Opener riding atop the leaderboard with a two-stroke lead, the Crimson’s Day 2 team score of 312 left the team with a frustrating sixth-place finish for the weekend. After Day 1, sophomore Michael Shore led all scorers with a two-under par 68, thanks to two front-nine birdies. Though Shore was the only player in the field to break 70, freshmen Danny Mayer and Greg Shuman carded 72 and 73, respectively, to finish...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Leading After One Round, Men's Golf Finishes Sixth | 4/8/2007 | See Source »

...During the first 500 we had a few seats to come back on Navy to catch up with them,” he said. “We had a solid stroke rating, about 35 strokes per minute during the body of the race. We just wanted to power through the middle part and work our way ahead before the final stretch...

Author: By Alexandra C. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Navy, Penn No Match For Heavies in Opener | 4/8/2007 | See Source »

...wind picked up a little bit, so the start was a bit rough,” said junior and varsity stroke George Kitovitz. But by the 1200-meter mark, when they were a length up on Navy, he said, they could relax a bit and just “didn’t look back...

Author: By Alexandra C. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Navy, Penn No Match For Heavies in Opener | 4/8/2007 | See Source »

...seemed almost too easy--and it was. In 2002 the quick pharmaceutical fix was all but snatched away when a large government study found that women taking hormones actually increased their odds of heart disease and that they put themselves at greater risk of breast cancer, stroke and blood clots. Women suffering with serious menopausal symptoms would simply have to balance the dangers and the benefits of the hormone treatments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hormone Therapy Redeemed | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

Reassuring--or at least illuminating--as all these findings are, hormone therapy is still a gamble. Even in women taking the treatment who were less than 10 years from the onset of menopause, there was a 77% higher risk of stroke and a 19% higher risk of breast cancer. That's why doctors urge those who take hormones to have their blood pressure checked and get regular mammograms. Aging may indeed never be easy, but once in a while it at least gets a little less confusing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hormone Therapy Redeemed | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

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