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...only two months last September and a total 15 deaths that same year, Texas recently passed the most comprehensive AED bill in the country, requiring every private, elementary, middle and high school in the state to have a defibrillator and a staff member trained to use it. "When the sixteenth child was saved by a defibrillator, the Governor finally woke up and said we do have a problem," Friend says. (See pictures of eighth-graders being recruited for college basketball...
...Basketball Tournament. ESPN recently earmarked the accomplishment as sixth in its top 25 greatest moments in NCAA Tournament history. The Crimson’s 71-67 victory marks the only instance, in either men’s or women’s tournament history, that a sixteenth seed eliminated a number one seed...
After getting swept for the sixteenth consecutive year on its annual Princeton-Penn roadtrip, the Harvard men’s basketball team travels to Brown and Yale this weekend hoping to avoid recent history...
...team for Friday’s dual meet against Columbia after a two-week break. HARVARD 208, CORNELL 89 HARVARD 187.5, DARTMOUTH 109.5 Despite failing to win as many events as it did against Brown, Harvard still took No. 1 in 11 of its 15 events, swimming the final sixteenth event, the 400-yard freestyle relay, as an exhibition. Dartmouth was able to take home two wins for the meet, with Cornell picking up the last three. Overall on Sunday, the Crimson beat the Big Red 208-89 and the Big Green by a smaller but still considerable margin...
...Those beliefs were driven home two years ago when I flew down to Birmingham, Alabama, to deliver a speech at the city's Civil Rights Institute. The institute is right across the street from the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, the site where, in 1963, four young children - Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, and Denise McNair - lost their lives when a bomb planted by white supremacists exploded during Sunday school, and before my talk I took the opportunity to visit the church. The young pastor and several deacons greeted me at the door and showed me the still-visible...