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With the clock ticking down and the Crimson driving towards the Penn goal line a season ago, time ran out on Harvard. Matt Fratto was wrestled down short of the end zone, in bounds, as the clock wound down. Penn 32, Harvard...
...hard to understand how the U.S. wound up with a major shortage of flu shots this year. Making the vaccine is notoriously difficult, and the process is prone to production problems and manufacturing delays. In addition, only two companies--Chiron and Aventis Pasteur--were licensed to produce the injections for the U.S. market, compared with five in Britain, six in France and eight in Germany. When Chiron had to withdraw 48 million doses of vaccine in early October because of contamination problems, the remaining 55 million or so doses being made by Aventis simply weren't enough to satisfy everyone...
...those, as the Red Sox have, and the frustration is bound to seep out somewhere. For the Boston fans, the Yankees plot line adds to the sense of justice and fairness that so many felt after winning it all. Some wondered what life would be like without their wound, their heartbreak. The truth is that the heartbreak isn?t really gone. It just suddenly somehow makes sense. Or as one fan said: ?Everything-67, 75, 86-it was all worth it.? How often in life do we get to look back at our grueling moments of pain and anguish...
DIED. CHRISTOPHER REEVE, 52, chiseled star of the Superman movies who became even better known for his medical activism after a 1995 horseback-riding accident that left him paralyzed; of an infection from a pressure wound; in Mount Kisco, N.Y. (See Health, page...
...became the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, which has so far raised $47 million for spinal-cord research. One of the first things Reeve came to appreciate was that healing a damaged cord is monstrously hard. Unlike nerves in, say, the skin, spinal nerves don't regenerate. Even a small wound can cut off the signals that enable the body to move, feel and draw breath...