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Ever since the Crimson lost 5-4 to Trinity in last year’s championship match, Harvard has believed that it is just a matter of time until it unseats the six-year reigning champions of college squash...
...contact. Its Latin species name, invicta, means invincible, and so far no affected country has managed to eradicate an infestation of the 2- to 6-mm-long ant. "I hate them," says Keith McCubbin, director of the Queensland Fire Ant Control Centre, which is spending $136 million on a six-year campaign to rid Australia of what he calls "some of the evilest creatures God put on Earth." Last week, the ants were discovered in Hong Kong, probably arriving via southern mainland China, where infestation had gone previously unannounced...
...done little to rekindle trading. The combined index for China's two bourses, in Shanghai and Shenzhen, is down 46% from its 2001 peak. Last year, the bourses lost 15% of their combined value, one of the worst stock-market performances in the world; they are currently trading near six-year lows. Meanwhile, the weekly trading volume on the Shanghai exchange has plummeted nearly sixfold, from a high of 178 billion yuan during the week ending Feb. 18, 2000, to 31 billion yuan last week...
...people of Sudan had cause for celebration on New Year's Eve. Negotiators in Naivasha, Kenya, announced that after 21 years of civil war, Sudan's Islamic government and rebels from the largely Christian and animist south had hammered out the final details of a peace deal. The agreement, to be signed on Jan. 9, will give the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement a share of political power and oil wealth during a six-year transition period, after which the south can hold a referendum on whether to secede. "Africa begins the year 2005 on a very good footing...
...three infractions represent a six-year record low for Adams, where inspectors recorded a high of 27 violations...