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...dramatic ending was reminiscent of last year's contest with Cornell...
Harvard scored on the opening drive of the game, keyed by a bizarre play that turned out to be just the start of a wild contest. Rose connected with Farley along the right sideline for 29 yards to the Cornell 20, when Big Red cornerback Jimmy Vattes punched the ball out of Farley's hands. The loose ball rolled eighteen yards forward before fellow Crimson wide-out Sam Taylor fell on the ball at the Cornell 2-yard line. Two plays later, Rose ran into the end zone to put the Crimson...
Such a beauty contest is precisely what phonemakers are eager to avoid. "There has been huge concern that this could be used for comparison shopping," says Norm Sandler, a spokesman for Motorola, the No. 2 cellular manufacturer after Nokia. To discourage what they call misleading comparisons, the companies will place a statement in boxes that declares all phones that emit radiation below the Federal Communications Commission SAR ceiling of 1.6 are equally safe. (An SAR measures the energy in watts per kilogram that one gram of body tissue absorbs from a cell phone.) "There's no evidence that any number...
Uninsured kids have become campaign props in this year's presidential contest. So far, most of the political debate on the issue has focused on the Governor's handling of the federal Children's Health Insurance Program, with Bush taking credit for extending this benefit to 423,000 low-income children, and Democrats slamming him for a slow and halfhearted start-up of the plan. But citing CHIP's performance as evidence that Bush is ignoring child health is not really convincing, since 39 other states have done just as badly as Texas in using federal funds allotted to them...
...sorts of sports that had enjoyed almost no profile in the country before last month. They had to be turned away from shooting events. They flooded the Olympics merchandise store, waiting more than three hours in line to buy silly-looking slippers. They would have gone to a staring contest if it had been a medal event. Live theater performances, including Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida at the Opera House, came to a halt while a big screen showed a particularly anticipated race. The denigrating humor was merely a contrasting shade in a riot of eagerness and team spirit...