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Kelly, who did not travel with the team to New Haven, Conn., injured his hand after the Crimson's 1-1 tie with Boston University Sept. 22. He sustained a broken hand and an infected cut that will keep him sidelined for another week and a half, he said yesterday. Kelly will have his stitches removed a week from tomorrow and cannot play before then. The midfielder/defender had not missed a game in his two years at Harvard before this year...
With less than 20 minutes to go, the Bulldogs had a golden opportunity to tie the game at 1-1. But Yale made a crucial mistake that may well have cost them the game...
...shorter. Golf carts, forbidden on the regular tour, are allowed. The problem in tennis, McEnroe explains, "is that we've still got to run, and they haven't yet come up with a shrunken court." Seniors competition is limited to two sets, however, and if necessary a 10-point tie breaker instead of the regular best out of three...
...That tie breaker doesn't sit too well with McEnroe, who jokingly calls the senior-tennis circuit the "dinosaur tour." "I think we should be playing two out of three sets," he says. "This way it's too quick, and most of the fans seem shocked that it's over." Also, he says, it doesn't test the players enough. "There should be at least some kind of fitness test involved...
...cosmopolitan virus does raise questions about the globalization of epidemics, and some analysts believe climate change may be having an effect on the spread of such diseases. "You could never with any certainty tie a disease of this type to global warming," says Gorman. "But there?s an argument being made that climate change may change patterns of disease ?- some plant and animal forms are certainly occurring further north than we?ve ever seen them before." Not much comfort to beleaguered New Yorkers suffering almost nightly pesticide bombardment from the mayor?s helicopters. And if climate change is a factor...