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Minutemen goalie Chris Campolettano entered the game with a 9.09 GAA and a .562 save percentage. Compared with Cynar, who is second in the NCAA with a .662 save percentage, Campolettano is one of the weaker goalies the Crimson will face all year...
...particularly hot issue, with environmentalists concerned about the modified fish's potential impact on wildlife. They say that although the experimental fish are bred to be sterile, one mistake - one fish that escapes - could ruin wild populations. The GM fish are known to have a lower egg-survival rate, weaker muscle structure and poorer swimming performance than normal salmon. But the economic arguments seem sure to outweigh the environmental ones. "After all, we've practically fished out our oceans already," says TIME science writer Frederic Golden, "and we need an alternative supply." To counter the risks, the developers...
...Granted, the regular pool of applicants is probably weaker than the early pool, but can the difference really account for the almost 15 percent difference in acceptance? That's highly doubtful. But, who would blame the admissions office for accepting more students early? Despite Harvard's unusually high acceptance yield, assessing how many students to admit is one of the most difficult tasks the admissions office faces. Of course they would want to fill as many spots as possible with students who they were fairly sure would enroll in the college...
...sending women into battle remains controversial. Skeptics point to Navy studies showing that female sailors are physically weaker than males and leave ships at more than twice the rate men do, often because they're pregnant. But officers who have commanded ships with women on board have generally brushed aside such concerns. Writing in the Navy journal Proceedings, Commander Gerard Roncolato, former skipper of the destroyer U.S.S. The Sullivans, declared that there is no job on board a ship today that cannot be done by a woman because of a lack of strength or stamina...
...always a problem when a party is bitterly divided during the primary season," Walt said. "Whoever wins has accumulated so much baggage that they become a weaker candidate in the general election...