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...majority in the House, and other G.O.P. incumbents in the state, such as Representative Clay Shaw, are already fighting intensely close races. On Monday,in a 90-minute closed-door meeting at Orlando International Airport, they anointed state Representative Joe Negron as Foley's replacement. But Negron faces a tougher task than a late-starting candidate would ordinarily; by law, Foley's name must remain on the Nov. 7 ballot, and though a vote for Foley would count as a vote for Negron, the chances of getting enough voters to drop their ill will toward Foley long enough to mark...
...pseudoephedrine (an active ingredient in Sudafed and similar over-the-counter remedies) will have to go to a pharmacist or salesclerk, show photo identification and sign a logbook recording their name and street address. The national rule, which echoes restrictions found in several states, is supposed to make it tougher for criminals to manufacture the illegal drug methamphetamine using packets of pseudoephedrine as its raw material. Allergy sufferers who don't want to go through the extra trouble had better have a lot of tissues on hand. The most common alternative, the nasal decongestant phenylephrine, may not be as effective...
...seconds between its first and fifth men and placed five men in the top 29 of the field of 172. Senior Sean Barrett, who led the Crimson with a No. 14 place finish in a time of 25:29, credited some of the team’s success to tougher training sessions. “In practice this week,” Barrett said, “we really started turning up the intensity and started to run faster...We tried to translate that over to the meet.” The women’s team, reeling after...
...people in Estonia and reckons it will have exhausted the local job market once it gets up to 350. Thanks to its hip reputation - and the package of eBay options offered to staff - it has managed to lure about 50 people from abroad. But other firms have a tougher time following suit. Allan Martinson, who ran an IT firm and has now set up shop as a venture capitalist, reckons that Estonia's true innovative edge has more to do with the willingness of the public to use technology than with any particular national skill at developing...
...limited the length of the festivities.The new policy has its obvious health-related flaws, which have been well-chronicled in these pages. Students, opponents say, will drink in the houses, binge drink, or avoid seeking help for dangerously intoxicated friends for fear of punishment. Yale’s tougher policy led to a significant drop in alcohol hospitalizations last year.Meanwhile, the Undergraduate Council has temporarily put aside its trivial squabbles and united around something that students actually care about, and for that they should be lauded. But this is a sports column, and there’s no need...