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High infant mortality, low life expectancy, soaring health-care costs - the symptoms are numerous and the diagnosis unmistakable: America's health-care system is ailing. But like a patient who coughs or limps his way through an illness, the U.S. has often been reluctant to look for help...
...captain Emily Tay, sophomore Emma Markley, and freshman Brogan Berry attacked the basket and chipped away at Princeton’s lead. The Tigers fell out of sync, hitting only one field goal in the first eight minutes of the second half. “We actually ran our system,” Delaney-Smith said. “We were less frantic. We were balanced and we were stronger and we had team play versus everybody trying to go one-on-one.” Harvard took a 40-39 lead with five minutes remaining in regulation, giving Princeton...
...never get out of prison).The second lesson is that you should always try to reach out to those who are different from you. You are among a small percentage of Americans who are _____ (college-educated, former students of Mrs. Edison, in charge of the prison system). Never forget that most people have had profoundly different life experiences from you, especially if _____ (they are Detroit Lions fans, they were in Mrs. Graham’s class, they were part of a prison gang). But there are ways to cut across all differences of race, class, upbringing, politics, or anything else...
...There are always lucky breaks, but we have to face that fact that we will never get inside North Korea to the point that we can rely on an international monitoring system. On Tuesday, the U.S. military flew "sniffer" planes off North Korea's coast, hoping to learn more about Monday's test. But it will be of little help. It cannot tell us how much plutonium the North still has, whether it intends to restart the Yongbyon reactor, or, for that matter, whether it is seriously thinking about invading South Korea...
...difficult year, which included heartbreaking overtime losses to then-No. 19 Brown at home in October and to MIT in the Northern Championships. Although the Crimson began the year 2-1 and looked to be adjusting well to head coach Erik Farrar’s new system, the squad struggled mightily with transition defense, prompting an eight-game losing streak. But rather than give into frustration, Harvard tightened its play and went 3-3 over its final six games, an encouraging sign for 2009. “Guys for the most part tried to focus on what we weren?...