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...getting into the match.”There was no choking as Mashruwala jumped out to a quick 6-0 lead and held on to win the game, 9-4, and take the match, 3-2.Junior No. 4 Katherine O’Donnell battled in a hard-fought match featuring wild momentum swings and lengthy rallies, ultimately prevailing, 2-9, 9-6, 10-8, 9-0, to raise her season record to 6-0.In the crucial third game, O’Donnell came from behind against Bantam JoAnn Jee to set up the victory.Freshman Nirasha Guruge, playing at the top flight...
...solid album, it is not as mind-blowingly awesome as it should be. The album’s best tracks showcase Franz Ferdinand doing what they do best: beat-driven, catchy, darkly sly dance tunes. Lyrics from Ulysses (“So sinister, so sinister last night was wild / What’s a matter there, feeling kinda anxious?”) are a bit unnerving, demonstrating, as always, the darkness that can come with having a good time. This time around, they mixed up the formula, adding more synth and dub influences. They have dabbled with synth before...
...this pressure lies the Obama wild card. The President has said that he wants Medicare to negotiate drug prices directly with drug companies, instead of through managed-care providers. What if the Federal Government reduced its Medicare reimbursements to drug companies who advertise to consumers? Or required them to help fund some kind of public health or education initiative? "The pharmaceutical companies are most nervous about a financial requirement for those who are doing DTC advertising," Bolling says. "It would have companies over a barrel. That's where it's really going to hurt." Things may be quiet...
...coveted species like the Atlantic cod and the bluefin tuna are becoming increasingly rare. An influential study published in 2006 in the journal Science predicted that if fishing around the world continued at its present pace, fish stocks would begin to decline, resulting in the final global collapse of wild fisheries, which could possibly happen as soon as mid-century...
That's the sort of attitude that needs to be brought to bear on global fishery management, lest wild fish disappear from our menu. The FAO code is valuable in principle, an excellent guide to a more sustainable fishing industry, but it's voluntary and lacks the teeth needed to save the world's fisheries. Of course, the very global nature of fishing, which often takes place outside any single nation's territory, makes it a classic tragedy of the commons. It's to the individual profit of any one fisherman, or any one nation, to keep fishing as long...