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...singles victories for Harvard, coming from junior Beier Ko, junior Laura Peterzan, and freshman Samantha Rosekrantz, were the first singles victories of the season for each of the players. At No. 1, Ko thrashed Francine Whu 6-2, 6-1, while in the No. 2 slot, Peterzan outlasted Vanessa Steiner, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, and at No. 6, Rosekrantz overwhelmed Dasha Zakharchenko 6-3, 6-2. In the first two games of the season, only freshman Agnes Sibilski and captain Stephanie Schnitter had prevailed in singles. “We’re proud to see more people...
...point to a wide range of contributing factors to the sudden spike in cop killings. The continuing proliferation of military-grade firearms often leaves police outgunned, while some gang initiations now include the express targeting of police - such as in April of 2004, when California Highway Patrol Officer Thomas Steiner was randomly shot outside a Pomona courthouse by a teen trying to prove himself to a local gang. Other experts and activists cite the desensitizing effect of popular culture, most notably violent video games, as a key reason that more young people have no compunction about opening fire...
...United States - will accept strict limits while their economic competitors in India and China are allowed free rein. Nor is there much time to figure it out. "We only have two years to reach an agreement on post-Kyoto, and only three years to prepare the ground," says Achim Steiner, the executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme. "It's down to the wire...
...Peru, Alaska and Thailand but also to the uncharted interior of man's highest, most lunatic dreams. In a 46-year career of great fiction films (Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Heart of Glass; Nosferatu; Fitzcarraldo) and in a string of amazing, hallucinatory documentaries (The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, The White Diamond, Grizzly Man), Herzog, 64, has trekked into the emotional wilderness to capture on film humanity's heart of darkness, heart of hope...
...future carbon emissions could be controlled using current technology like nuclear or renewable energy-and that it could be done without bankrupting the global economy. "Measures to reduce emissions can, in the main, be achieved at starkly low costs, especially when compared with the costs of inaction," said Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). European environment commissioner Stavros Dimas drilled home the message: "There is no excuse for waiting...