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Harvard wasn't able to get on the scoreboard until late in the second quarter. Midfielder Robert Griffith took a pass from attackmen Steve Lux. With a flick of his wrist he quickly erased the goose egg with one minute remaining...
...hopes for so much from a chicken and is so dreadfully disillusioned," wrote Sherwood Anderson in 1921, in a celebrated short story titled The Egg. Anderson's melancholy view is more apropos than ever. The poor egg, already condemned by heart specialists for its high cholesterol content, was blamed in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association for yet another scourge: food poisoning. Illness due to the bacterium Salmonella enteritidis -- vomiting, stomach cramps, diarrhea, fever and headache -- has increased sevenfold in the northeastern U.S. during the past decade, according to the Centers for Disease Control. And during...
Most disturbing is that the Northeast outbreaks, affecting 2,119 people and killing eleven of them, struck despite precautions taken specifically to keep the bacteria at bay. Because chickens frequently harbor salmonella in their intestines and contaminate eggshells with their droppings, cracked eggs cannot be sold to retail markets. To pass state and federal inspections, intact ones must be washed with disinfectant before they are shipped. Nonetheless, all the food-poisoning cases blamed on eggs were traced to the grade-A variety, which had been washed and inspected for cracks. This finding has led researchers to suggest that the bacteria...
...back row and noticed that my classmates' clothes managed to touch on every color in the rainbow. Their apparel even covered a bunch of colors that usually get left out of rainbows. My eyes, when they happened to stray from the podium, caught flashes of robin's-egg-blues and dark browns, pinks and greens and yellows and ragg wool sweaters. Brights and darks and neons and dulls, splattered on everything from tank tops to overcoats...
Going into the final period Harvard led, 8-0. Boston College's Brian Stenberg removed the goose egg from the B.C. side of the scoreboard with a goal at 4:14. After an awesome drive towards the cage, Stenberg netted another...