Word: took
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...rubber match, Jonas shone again, making 28 saves and allowing only two goals through two periods. It took a superb shot off a mini-breakaway generated by a defensive zone turnover to beat Jonas for the game-winner and end the Harvard season...
...Vail, a Second-Team All-Ivy selection last season, took the hard-luck loss, fashioning a complete game of his own while striking out six and allowing four hits...
...Harvard cheerleading team took third place Sunday in the co-ed college division at the National Cheerleaders Association (NCA) Northeast Regional Competition. The two-day competition drew over 40 high school and 15 college teams, 10 of them co-ed, to Albany...
...that the antidepressant Zyban, taken alone or in combination with a nicotine patch, works about twice as well as the patch alone. Smokers in the study were treated for nine weeks; after a year 16% of those using just the patch were smoke-free, in contrast to 30% who took Zyban and 35% using both. An added benefit of the combo: it can prevent weight gain--at least early on--that often accompanies quitting...
There was speculation that the Hutus deliberately targeted the expeditioners in an effort to cut Uganda's burgeoning income from tourism. But the real explanation may be more mundane. "They took a lot of very good gear, rain jackets, boots, backpacks," says a Nairobi diplomat. "These guys were wearing old jeans and T shirts. They were very happy, very excited with what they got." Gorilla-watching expeditions to remote preserves were once limited to the likes of Dian Fossey, the American researcher who lived for 18 years in the Rwandan forests before her murder in 1985. But adventure-holiday companies...