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...second, fourth and seventh. Harvard went down in order in the third, fourth and fifth, and although sophomore Emily Henderson drew a leadoff walk in the sixth, she couldn’t advance past second base.“I think we’re going to try to switch up the lineup and spread out our hitters who have been hitting the ball well,” Vertovez said. “We were all having great at-bats—it just wasn’t falling in. We just need to keep swinging...
...Obama administration thinks it has discovered a magic bullet in the drive to lower health-care costs: electronic medical records (EMR). Getting the medical profession to switch from manual record-keeping to a national computerized system, boosters argue, will save money, reduce errors, improve quality and transform health care as we know it. President Barack Obama has proposed investing $50 billion over the next five years to help make it happen...
...suit day every June and Republican candy desk. It's like Pee-wee's Playhouse with more sex scandals. But nothing is crazier than the fact that every two years, the Senate must break from trillion-dollar bailouts and Iraq-war allocations so that everyone who wants to can switch offices. Each office is allotted by seniority, which is calculated according to a formula that involves number of years in the Senate, previous federal jobs, the size of your state and eight other factors. Obviously, Robert Byrd has the best office, since he's served the longest. Still, when...
...mediate the ratings process, since insurers are among the largest buyers of rated bonds. Regulators would collect a fee from insurance outfits and then use the money to buy ratings for everyone to use. If the ratings proved too rosy over time - or inaccurate in another way - regulators would switch to a different ratings company...
...idea is that in a global economy so tightly linked that problems in the U.S. real estate market can help bring down Icelandic banks and Asian manufacturers, AIG sits at some of the critical switch points. Its failure, so the fear goes, would set off chains of others, rattling around the globe in short order. Although some critics say the fear is overblown and the world economy could absorb the blow, no one seems particularly keen on testing that approach...