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...Rock, the fall's most ballyhooed experiment, has sunk to near the bottom of the ratings pack. ABC has considered trying it in a new time period, perhaps switching it with Gabriel's Fire, another new series doing poorly. But both shows have been left in place for now. How come...
...develop a key piece of evidence." Following the spill, some 36,000 dead birds were recovered from the waters. But researchers estimate that the fatalities may have been far more numerous, between 100,000 and 300,000. The project seeks to demonstrate that the missing birds could have sunk to the ocean bottom, floated out to sea, or washed up on deserted shores. In separate studies, meanwhile, the state of Alaska killed more than 200 ducks and scores of mammals, including deer, otter, mink and seals, to analyze long-term contamination effects...
...process, the second-place Big Green snared their 10th consecutive win, while Harvard sunk to a lowly sixth place in the Ivies with just one league game to play...
...problem by itself. We recognize that high yields on the endowment are good for all of us. We object, however, to the total lack of oversight by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) over such investments. Harvard Management Corporation (HMC), which controls the University's investments, has sunk more than a billion dollars into high-risk, high-yield "private placement" investments, all without a trace of accountability to anyone below the Harvard Corporation...
...have been enchanted by the Red Sox ever since I can remember--or at least since since 1978, when I started to follow the game. Each year, of course, my spirits have sunk along with the team's position in the standings...