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...women’s volleyball team hit a bump in the road this past weekend, dropping two matches to visiting Penn and Princeton at the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC).The Crimson (8-7, 2-2 Ivy) lost a 3-2 heartbreaker to the Quakers on Friday night before getting swept by the Tigers on Saturday.The weekend set dropped Harvard from the top of the Ivy League standings and into the middle of the pack, while Princeton recovered on Saturday after losing its first match of the season to Dartmouth on Friday night.The Crimson will try and recover this weekend when...
...electrolytes to other parts of the body and restore fluid balance. The connection between diarrhea and fluid loss was first noted in 1830 by a surgeon working for the British East India Company in Calcutta. But interest in treating diarrhea didn't gain ground until devastating cholera epidemics swept the subcontinent in the middle of the last century. Fluid loss from cholera-related diarrhea occurs so rapidly that its victims can die within four to eight hours or, as lore has it, before they can dig their own graves. Cholera is still a leading cause of diarrhea in Bangladesh...
...Maybe the color of the Nobel Prize medal should be changed from gold to red, white and blue. U.S. researchers swept the science awards for the first time since 1983. But the joy came with a warning from many in the U.S. scientific community: the kind of basic research that won Nobels is no longer getting adequate funding. Without more funds, they argue, U.S. scientific dominance won't last, as other nations become more competitive in these cutting-edge fields...
...think politicians clinging to power isn't big news, then you may have forgotten the pure zeal of Gingrich's original revolutionaries. They swept into Washington on the single promise that they would change Capitol Hill. And for a time, they did. Vowing to finish what Ronald Reagan had started, they stood firm on the three principles that defined conservatism: fiscal responsibility, national security and moral values. Reagan, who had a few scandals in his day, didn't always follow his own rules. But his doctrine turned out to be a good set of talking points for winning elections...
...Republican Party of 2006 is a tired, cranky shell of the aggressive, reformist movement that was swept into office in 1994 on a wave of positive change," Frank Luntz, one of the strategists of the G.O.P. takeover, wrote this week in a column for TIME.com "I worked for them. They were friends of mine. These Republicans are not those Republicans...