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...suffered severe knee damage.“We did everything we could with medical care,” O’Connor said. “We’re waiting on MRI results, but it sounds like a torn MCL.”The Crimson standout weathered the tear admirably, but he clearly struggled for the rest of the tournament. O’Connor faced fellow sophomore Bubba Jenkins from Penn State in the fourth round and dropped a very close 5-3 decision to the sixth-ranked grappler. The loss sent O’Connor into the wrestleback...
...feed children and save trees. "There are many mouths to feed, and nobody's invented a chip to create protein without growing crops," says his pal Homero Pereira, a congressman who is also the head of Mato Grosso's farm bureau. "If you don't want us to tear down the forest, you better pay us to leave...
...with no brakes. As long as the road remains smooth and straight, the car roars ahead. But throw in some potholes and a tight turn, and the wheels come off. Factories have been able to increase output in recent years because the global economy has been on a tear. The 2004-07 period saw the second strongest bout of global growth on record - which translated into strong demand for cheap Chinese-made products. But this era may be ending. Most economists are predicting a significant slowdown in worldwide GDP growth in 2008. This slowdown, predicts Lehman Brothers economist Sun Ming...
Transients often move in, steal the power, tear apart the walls and floorboards in search of valuable copper wires and piping and set fires to cook drugs or keep warm. The police struggle to keep the damage under control; but with no owner around to claim a trespass violation on a repossessed home, it's difficult for them to make arrests. All they can do is tell the squatters to leave, board up the house and ship off a note to the bank that now owns the property. "It's a victimless crime," says Bert Lippert, a bit sarcastically...
...dean of East Jerusalem’s most prominent university told me that three Harvard students had visited the West Bank last summer on behalf of Harvard’s admissions office.The hope and angst juxtaposed on the wall’s face (where “Mr. Bush tear down this wall” stood spray-painted only a few panels over from “Zionism = Nazism”) underlined the story I heard from the dean: local students, aspiring to education’s holy grail, were soon discouraged by the unfamiliar exams demanded by the application...