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...Eighth-place Union topped Niagara, 4-3, in its lone game of the weekend. ECAC Player of the Week Doug Christiansen connected on two power play goals, including the game winning score with just under four minutes left in the game, to lift the Skating Dutchmen (5-9-0, 3-3-0) over the Purple Eagles...
...hardly news that medical professionals make mistakes--even dumb, deadly mistakes. What's shocking is how often it happens. Depending on which statistics you believe, the number of Americans killed by medical screw-ups is somewhere between 44,000 and 98,000 every year--the eighth leading cause of death even by the more conservative figure, ahead of car crashes, breast cancer and AIDS. More astonishing than the huge numbers themselves, though, is the fact that public health officials had known about the problem for years and hadn't made a concerted effort to do something about...
...bought out his contract after a bitter power struggle--but even fellow reformers think his plan was too much, too soon. Says board member David Tokofsky: "You've got the unions who want their say. And, of course, there's the facilities issue: Where do you send all these eighth-graders if you can't send them to high school?" The district now says it will stop advancing low-achieving students only in two grades (second and eighth), and it will begin next year...
...words, and you still didn't "want something else." Then you bought the album and found out that Third Eye Blind's songs were fantastic. "Graduate," "Narcolepsy," "I Want You"--for me, they were the songs that made my senior summer; for my brother, they were the hits of eighth grade; for everyone, they formed the soundtrack to a small part of our lives. And the new album, Blue, while perhaps not living up to the popularity of its predecessor, delivers a smattering of songs which showcase the band's tenacious solidarity and overwhelming talent. Third Eye Blind...
...eighth grade. In high school...