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...scene. The Crimson is the top-ranked team in the Ivy League, ahead of ECAC champion Yale at No. 35 and defending Ivy champion Penn at No. 40—a ranking Graham believes should be higher. In Graham’s eyes, the league is tougher than it ever has been...
Although Silver had a tougher time than either Hagamen or Jakus in team competition, going 6-4 in Pool C, he secured a third-place finish in the pool and won a crucial late bout to snatch the title from Columbia...
...hidden at the insistence of drug companies eager to protect their patent rights, explained Dean Hamer, chief of the National Cancer Institute?s gene structure and regulation section. Calling for more transparency in such experimental procedures, he said there was a simple explanation for why there aren?t tougher federal regulations on informed consent: ?Just follow the money,? said Hamer, and you?ll get the answer. He cited treatment of AIDs as a prime example of economics-driven medicine. ?There are great drugs for HIV,? he said, ?but only 3% of the people affected get them...
...committee also gave a boost to professors and students pushing for greater recognition of ethnic studies and recommended tougher academic requirements for first-years. Both proposals will go before the full Faculty for approval at an unspecified later date...
...Security Council, possibly later this week. But reports indicate that this resolution will stop short of authorizing military action, instead repeating the threat of "serious consequences" and possibly issue an ultimatum to Baghdad to meet specific demands in a prescribed time-frame. The diplomatic going may be tougher than ever, however, with last weekend's antiwar demonstrations that drew some 6 million people into the streets of Europe stiffening the spine of the war-wary Security Council members...