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Freshman Lexi Shear earned her second shutout of the season by defending the net for Harvard Despite a number of scoring opportunities in the final minutes, Bowdoin (1-3) was unable to attempt more than five shots in any one period...
...physical withdrawal and reducing cravings, and it is significantly more potent in blocking heroin's high if the addict tries to shoot up again. Unlike methadone, buprenorphine is relatively nonaddictive and carries almost no risk of overdose. In one trial of 41 addicts on methadone maintenance, it cut the number of those who continued to take heroin to just over half and eased 18 off opiates altogether...
...bonus, buprenorphine seems radically to suppress the urge to take cocaine, which is abused by an estimated 70% to 80% of heroin addicts. Methadone also tends to reduce coke use, but less dramatically. While methadone may wean half of those treated from cocaine, buprenorphine could slash the number of coke abusers to almost nil, says Yale researcher Thomas Kosten. A Harvard study of rhesus monkeys habituated to using coke found that daily doses of buprenorphine led the monkeys to kick the habit completely...
Many of the people who contract hepatitis C never show symptoms. But like Typhoid Mary, they become silent carriers of the disease. About half those infected eventually suffer liver damage. Some 15,000 patients a year develop cirrhosis, and a small number may get cancer. That toll may be cut by interferon. But doctors warn that the mystery of non-A, non-B hepatitis may not be completely resolved. Type C virus could account for most of these cases, but there is evidence that yet another blood-borne virus will extend the hepatitis alphabet still further...
...decision to leave law is becoming a more common one, especially in urban firms. "Compared with five years ago, there are a significantly greater number of lawyers today who are not practicing law for a living," says Ward Bower, a partner at the legal consulting firm Altman & Weil in Ardmore, Pa. Experts estimate that nearly 40,000 lawyers a year are leaving the profession, almost as many people as are entering law school annually. A Maryland State Bar Association survey last December found that 35% of the lawyers who responded were not sure they wished to continue practicing...