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Summers said, however, that expanded undergraduate housing in Allston did not mean the College was trying to swell its student ranks...
...first time in their four-year campaign, the contras claim that they are strong enough to pose a credible threat to the Sandinista government. Their numbers continue to swell, with support coming in particular from poor Nicaraguan campesinos. The Nicaraguan army has attempted to keep the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN), the main contra group, bottled up along the 550-mile border with Honduras. But the rebels claim that since late June they have infiltrated 14,000 guerrillas, operating under 13 regional commands, into Nicaragua, and that 53,000 more are awaiting training and outfitting on the country's borders. Moving...
...researchers found that 13 percent suffered from hyponatremia, a condition characterized by excess water in the blood, which causes sodium levels to fall. Water then moves to areas of higher sodium content in the body, causing cells to swell...
...Radke, we didn't get Hudson. We let Derek depart without so much as a fare-thee-well, and lost Martinez to the Mets-which mightn't have been such a bad thing, no matter how he performs in Queens. (The bet here is that he'll be swell for a year or two, especially against those NL lineups, but by year five he'll be cooked to a crisp. And he'll begin to act up in year three, as is his wont.) Gabe Kapler certainly deserved to play every day somewhere, and if that somewhere needed...
...help fix it. The project is the cornerstone of the government's giddy goal of becoming the "battery of Southeast Asia," and has been on the drawing board for almost 20 years. The dam will flood an area the size of Singapore, bleed one river almost dry and swell another, force the relocation of 6,200 people, and affect as many as another 100,000 living in and around the country's central Nakai Plateau. A joint project between the Laos government and a consortium of international companies led by the France's state-owned Electricit? de France...