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...Though there was much talk during the week on whether the Final Four teams should be re-seeded and reshuffled (Maryland would have played Indiana, Kansas vs. Oklahoma to avoid two top seeds playing in a semifinal) most coaches weren't having it. Of the 21 who were asked, only six thought reseeding a good idea, and only one thought it would ever come to pass. "Who's the best team here?" barked Arizona State Coach Bob Evans. Umm. "There's your answer! You don't know!" "No and no," retorted former Georgetown coach John Thompson before being escorted...
...therapy, options are limited, taking their cues from addiction protocols, which stress abstinence and provide strategies for avoiding temptation. Libido-lowering drugs may also help, as may antidepressants such as Prozac. Highly motivated patients can avoid trouble for years. The key, however, is the motivation; patients must work on their recovery for a lifetime, usually with the support of a family or community. "Running someone through a two- or three-year program, then leaving him on his own is doomed to failure," says Smith. With the lives of kids on the line, failure is something that few parents or lawmakers...
...real world champion? No one knows. Few think Ponomariov has what it takes. But Kasparov doesn't have FIDE's stamp of approval, and, besides, he lost to Kramnik in a non-FIDE championship match two years ago (since then Kramnik has managed to avoid a title rematch). "There's this terrible rift in chess," says Seirawan, who is also boycotting FIDE events. "The world chess championship is a disputed title...
...worst behind it, the Boston archdiocese agreed last week to pay $20 million to $30 million to settle the high-profile lawsuits brought by 86 victims of defrocked priest John Geoghan. But that was hardly all that the scandal has cost Boston's Catholics. In confidential settlements intended to avoid any whiff of publicity, the church, starting in 1994, gave $15 million to a group of victims molested by Geoghan. In one instance, according to the Boston Globe, a single family got $400,000 to hush up the sexually explicit phone calls Geoghan made to the children. And there...
...noticed an increase in the number of oncology positions listed in help-wanted ads run by its competitor in trade papers. Bristol-Myers Squibb had also told financial analysts it was investing more money in its oncology unit. In response, SmithKline sped up its own cancer research to avoid being muscled out of the market...