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...usual, the Tigers rely heavily on the three-pointer—half the team’s shots have been from behind the arc this season. Princeton is making fewer of its threes than normal, however. No Tiger player ranks in the top fifteen in the league in three-point percentage...
...date, authorities have made 23 arrests in connection to the fires, including a 14- and 15-year-old detained this Friday. Fifteen of the suspects are said to be juveniles, but authorities have said their tender age will earn them no leniency from the law. "Any youngster nabbed lighting a fire will not get off with a warning from a judge," said State Premier Bob Carr...
...GABON Ebola Is Back Authorities cordoned off a remote region along the border between Gabon and the Republic of Congo after confirming an outbreak of Ebola disease. Fifteen people have died so far from the hemorrhagic fever, for which there is no known cure. The virus is believed to have spread from Gabon to the Congo after an infected woman fled to a village across the border with her baby. Both mother and child later died...
Nonetheless, potassium iodide has had its successes. Following Chernobyl, which released a giant plume of radiation, the Polish government distributed tablets to the population, while neighboring Belarus didn't. Fifteen years later, the incidence of thyroid cancer has not changed in Poland, while it has jumped an alarming 100-fold among some Belarussian children. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is now giving states the option of stocking up on potassium iodide for communities near the nation's 103 nuclear power plants. Still, the NRC emphasizes that the drug is not the next Cipro. Says NRC spokesman William Beecher...
...Harvard College presses are atwitter over the issue of jocks in the academe. In the past few weeks, Fifteen Minutes ran a 5,000-word jock-justifying “Scrutiny,” the Independent published an “Opinion Forum” on the matter, and even in this space a letter to the editor cooked up jock-hate over the brief mention in a Crimson Sports article of a first-year hockey player’s departure for more professional pastures. But why is so much pulp and ink being wasted without anyone?...