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...Crimson will also have to rely on Brown, who has continued to carry the majority of the pitching burden in the follow-up to her Ivy Rookie of the Year campaign. The sophomore is third in the conference with a 1.86 ERA and has leads all Ivy pitchers with 86 strikeouts...
Books on training for a marathon always encourage people to tell everyone they know about their intention to run 26.2 miles in one grueling stretch. Facebook just might be the perfect forum for broadcasting such a goal and making the goal setter stick to it. Cara Sronce, a 24-year-old law student in Carbondale, Ill., says that soon after she signed up for her first marathon, the 2010 Chicago race, she posted a status update about getting ready for the October event. "I figure I can't stop now, unless I get some serious injury or something," she says...
...Iran has the advantage here is an understatement. Every attempt to curtail its nuclear program has failed. Obama's outreach in the first year of his Administration produced neither a change in Iran's behavior nor a willingness among other countries to increase the pressure on Tehran. The Administration currently claims it is making progress toward tougher sanctions, and the President said this week that he hoped the Security Council would pass a new sanctions resolution this spring. But it is increasingly clear that any new U.N. sanctions, if they come, will contain few new penalties. (See pictures...
...Lama), Beijing said this week it was willing to restart the conversation. But even if China were to agree in those talks to a moderate expansion of the same sanctions within existing categories, that's a far cry from the "crippling sanctions" Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had last year threatened would be the price of continued Iranian defiance. (Read "On Iran Sanctions, Is the U.S. Spinning Its Wheels...
...donations, creating special support-me-while-I'm-training groups and posting status updates about returning from a 20-mile run at an hour when most sane people are lazily rolling out of bed. The nonprofit group Running USA reports that there were 467,000 marathon finishers last year, up nearly 10% from 2008 - and the highest number of finishers to date. And we can thank Facebook groupthink for helping pick up the pace. (See 25 websites you can't live without...