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Thoke came out looking ready to pitch against the Sooners' Leah Gulla. She threw past her twice to drive the count to 0-2. But then disaster struck...
Thoke settled down and pitched out of the inning. The next Oklahoma batter attempted a suicide squeeze, but senior third baseman Crystal Springer managed to run down the ball and toss it to McKendry for the force at home. Thoke then struck out Ring...
...been a long time coming, but the 30-year-old Clean Air Act has struck a decisive blow against Big Oil. Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced sweeping new anti-pollution measures that would drastically reduce emissions from trucks and buses and eliminate a significant percentage of the carcinogens and asthma-inducing inhalants currently poisoning the national atmosphere. This is a big step for the once-timid EPA; Wednesday's declaration is an uncharacteristically forceful move, setting the agency on a collision course with the powerful (and increasingly irritable) oil industry. While regulators would continue to grant smaller refiners...
...Only when I opened [the attachment] did I realize there was a problem." Indeed, it was a bigger problem than anybody, probably even its mischievous creator, could have imagined as computers everywhere tumbled like so many dominoes. Once again that scourge of the Internet age--a computer virus--had struck. Silently, lethally, without even a hint of a warning fever, it raced around the world at light speed, clogging communications and bringing both commerce and politics to a halt...
...Governor in 1983 when AIDS suddenly struck like a plague and our great New York City nearly panicked. People thought to be suffering from AIDS were treated as pariahs; it was difficult to get beds for the victims, or doctors and nurses to treat them. With no need for prodding, JOHN CARDINAL O'CONNOR made St. Clare's Hospital in Manhattan a haven for AIDS victims, and that example helped encourage the city's aggressive response to a uniquely severe crisis. For many years after that, without publicizing it, the Cardinal visited AIDS patients, sought to comfort them and even...