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...perfectly placed shot by Pell could not be legally stopped. It flew high over the head of Yale keeper Krissy Nesburg and descended towards the upper-right corner of the goal. An Eli defender raised her stick above her head to prevent the score, forcing the first penalty stroke of the game...
...Nesburg fell down far outside of the net to stop Nagle, but Pell gained control of the loose ball, skirted around Nesburg and pushed the ball straight at the empty net. A Yale defender managed to stop Pell's shot with her feet, forcing the game's second penalty stroke...
...getting some relief from all the nutritional arithmetic. Last week the American Heart Association released its latest dietary recommendations, this time playing down the numbers and focusing instead on plain old foods--fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains and fish--that will help most Americans prevent heart disease, hypertension and stroke. If you follow the advice, your dietary percentages will fall into line naturally. In effect, the A.H.A. has done the math...
...would normally have missed Bowdoin's first cut of applications. But in his essay he wrote of how he'd spent those first two years of high school: "slowly poisoning myself in a pool of malted hops." Then a close relative who was an alcoholic died of a stroke. After that, he cut out the beer, got A-pluses in his senior year and won a national writing award. He also won a unanimous thumbs-up for admission...
...October Surprise: It's usually a dramatic stroke the incumbents pull off in order to get a boost in a November election. This time, the October surprise is on Bill Clinton and Al Gore...