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...record 14th career shutout, holding Quinnipiac scoreless with 21 saves. Boe’s counterpart, Bobcats goalie Connie Craig, finished with 24 stops and succeeded in blanking the Harvard power play the rest of the way. It finished 1-for-11 on the afternoon but held Quinnipiac to a woeful 0-for-9 on its own power play in a whistle-heavy encounter that saw two game misconduct penalties—to Johnston and the Bobcats’ Nicolette Leone—assessed within seconds of each other in the final period. “The game became very rough...
...teams are really a pick’em, but the Bears’ wins against Yale and Dartmouth give them the slight edge over the other two. 7. DARTMOUTH The Big Green got into the win column the hard way, taking a Saturday night Ivy road game against the woeful Lions. 8. COLUMBIA Another promising start to the season has led to another disappointing plummet to the bottom of the league standings...
...that time of year again, when the most prolific shoppers--and woeful savers--on earth, Americans, run amuck in stores as if they were Kris Kringle with his elves on strike. It matters little that shoppers are already neck-deep in debt or that even those doing well have cause for stress, given that sky-high home-heating bills are just a month away, inflation and interest rates are rising and the housing market is slowing--all of which is eating into most budgets or soon will...
...secret that China's red-hot industrial growth has inflicted woeful harm to the environment. Water supplies are particularly at risk. "Water is the biggest environmental problem in China," says Turner of the China Environment Forum. At a conference in Beijing last month, Chinese Vice Minister of Construction Qiu Baoxing said the country is "facing a water crisis more severe and urgent than any other country in the world." In Harbin, there were obvious signs that the incident had frayed the people's faith in their rulers. Trains and planes out of the city were jammed. Near the village...
Mamola and the Colemans contacted representatives of Save the Children, who told them that one of the biggest problems they had in getting children immunized was reaching the ones in remote villages. Save the Children sent Mamola and the Colemans to Somalia, where they saw the woeful state of the roads. But they noticed that the countryside was littered with abandoned motorbikes, left by earlier aid workers who didn't know how to fit an oil filter or tighten a chain. If Mamola and the Colemans could import drivers who could handle the roads and maintain the bikes, a whole...