Word: wildly
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...WILD ABOUT HARRY...
...disease that struck Nichols as a teenager was familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), a genetic disorder characterized by a wild--and potentially lethal--growth of cancerous polyps on the inner lining of the intestine. The only recourse is to remove them surgically, along with the intestinal wall, and outfit the patient, at least temporarily, with a waste-collection bag strapped to the body. Nichols desperately wanted to protect his son from that grim experience...
Princeton closed the gap, but Beam finally got on track after struggling much of the night, scoring all 11 of his points in the game's final 12 minutes as the Crimson held on and out-shot the Tigers in overtime as the Lavietes crowd went wild...
...would be pretty tough to script a more dramatic culmination to a season than the way this one ended at the American Women's College Hockey Association National Championship at the University of Minnesota's Mariucci Arena in Minneapolis. In a wild third period, both Harvard and UNH, the defending national champions, scored three goals to force overtime in the title game. That only set the stage for Harvard to demonstrate that it was truly the best team in college women's hockey...
...that, TIME's board refuses to proclaim a "new economy" from which recessions have been banished. The Internet and IT may make downturns milder and less frequent, partly by tamping down the wild inventory swings that have intensified past slumps. Computers make it much easier to match orders and deliveries of goods to sales. On the other hand, Sinai senses an enhanced source of instability--the frenzied pace of stock and real estate trading, speeded up by the Internet and intensified by the enthusiasm of investors for Internet stocks, some of which may take many years to justify their current...