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Charles A. Moose is in a bit of a bind. As Montgomery County Police Chief, Moose wants desperately to identify the sniper who has terrorized the Washington D.C. suburbs for the past eight days, most recently killing a man at a Virginia service station. But this strong-willed, inveterate leader wants to do it his way - a tall order when you consider the masses of media, federal police and FBI agents swarming around each new crime scene - and second-guessing every move that's made. For his role as the unofficial spokesman for the sniper investigation, Charles Moose...
...Fairchilds met every attribute, except proximity to Boston. They lived then in Hartford, Conn., though they now live in Virginia...
...Harvard University athletic program was ranked 41st by Sports Illustrated in its Oct. 7 “America’s Best Sports Colleges” issue, just behind such traditional athletic powerhouses as Virginia, Wisconsin and Penn Sate...
...Thanks to this year's chemistry Nobel laureates, that's a lot easier than it used to be. In the late 1980s, John Fenn, 85, of Virginia Commonwealth University, and Koichi Tanaka, 43, of Shimadzu Corp. in Kyoto, Japan, independently invented techniques that extended a common analytical tool called mass spectrometry - that is, sorting by mass - to much bigger and more complex molecules than had ever been possible. Among many other things, their work has led to new diagnostic tests for ovarian, breast and prostate cancers and for malaria, and earned the pair half of the approximately $1million prize...
...final match of the tournament, the Crimson managed to stifle the Hokies’ dominance, who had gone 16-2 in tournament play. Going in to the fourth hour of play, Harvard led Virginia Tech 3-1. No. 5 George Turner and No. 6 junior Chris Chiou had both posted straight-set victories in their singles matches, and the Crimson had swept in the doubles...