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Harvard returns to the courts tomorrow, taking on No. 2 Georgia in the first round of the 2004 USTA/ITA National Women’s Team Indoor Championships, hosted by the University of Wisconsin...
...DIED. ELROY ("CRAZYLEGS") HIRSCH, 80, Hall of Fame Los Angeles Rams' receiver who resurrected his career after a stint as a running back with the woeful Chicago Rockets; in Madison, Wisconsin. Hirsch, who gained his nickname from his ungainly running style, suffered three injury-plagued losing seasons with the Rockets. But at Los Angeles, Hirsch became one of American football's first great receivers, catching 10 touchdown passes during the team's 1951 championship season...
DIED. UTA HAGEN, 84, revered stage actress and acting teacher best known for originating the role of Martha in Edward Albee's 1962 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; in New York City. Born in Germany and raised in Wisconsin, she began her career in London in 1937 as Ophelia in Eva Le Gallienne's Hamlet. She later won acclaim for her Nina in Chekhov's The Seagull and as the wife of an alcoholic actor in Clifford Odets' The Country Girl. In the late 1940s, she and her second husband, actor-director Herbert Berghof, started HB Studio, a widely...
...leap from animals to humans, often with devastating effects. AIDS and Ebola originated in apes, Creutzfeldt-Jakob in cattle, West Nile in birds and SARS in a little-known animal called the palm civet. Last year the exotic-pet trade took a 3-lb. Gambian rat from Africa to Wisconsin, where it infected a prairie dog with monkeypox--the first occurrence in North America. From the prairie dog, it jumped to a human and ultimately to 87 people in six Midwestern states. Increased globalization means these alien diseases are borne around the world with appalling speed. Makes you wonder, What...
...believe that the reason I smoke and drink and my wife is overweight is because we watched TV every day for the last four years. " Timothy Dumouchel, a Wisconsin man who threatened to sue a cable company for providing free service for four years after he requested that it be canceled. (Dumouchel decided...