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Throughout Harvard’s rollercoaster season, including Saturday’s 27-17 win over Lafayette, a single unit has remained the constant: the secondary. After the Crimson tied the game up at 17 at the end of the second quarter, the defensive backs really went to work on the Leopards wideouts. Lafayette marched down the field in the two-minute drill only to have senior safety John Hopkins—the reigning Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week—pick off Mike DiPaolo’s pass at Harvard’s three-yard line. Hopkins...
...Moves like the latter one could wind up stoking the fires of global inflation. After all, it was China's cheap laborers who turned the country into the world's factory. By one estimate, China's manufacturing unit labor cost was just 4% of that of the U.S. in 2005. Now, as the mainland economy powers ahead - GDP growth jumped by 11.9% in the second quarter - real wages of urban workers have been soaring at double-digit rates, rising 18% in the first half of this year alone, according to the government. Add in higher raw-materials prices, and manufacturers...
...skin to scold a woman who recently jumped a long queue at Ho's neighborhood bakery. Ho says her swift adaptation to Chinese culture, along with the very American networking skills she used to cultivate mentors and allies back at headquarters, helped her survive when GE abruptly shut her unit last year. Instead of hauling her home, the company immediately placed her atop another division in China, selling security equipment like airport baggage-screening machines. "You can get orphaned out here," she says. Instead, she raised revenue fivefold at her new unit...
Within hours of leaving the body, the research showed, a unit of blood loses up to 70% of its NO; by the time the blood reaches its "use by" expiration date 42 days later, the gas is almost nonexistent. "The reality is, we are giving patients blood that cannot deliver oxygen properly," says Stamler...
...string of good games coming in.”On the other side of the ball, the offense might be facing its biggest test of the year in Lafayette’s defense. However, the focus won’t be so much on the opposing unit as the Crimson’s ability to finish games.“Both of [Harvard’s losses] should have been wins, so we really should be looking at, in my mind, an undefeated Harvard team at this point,” Tavani said at the media luncheon.For its part...