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...positive of this season has been our will to win regardless of our standing," Primm said. "After the close losses to Notre Dame and UMass, we could have easily thrown in the towel, but instead [we] maintained our focus with Dartmouth...
Harvard scored the final three runs on Princeton errors. Senior Jessie Amberg popped the ball to short, where the ball was dropped, then thrown past the first the baseman. Two more Harvard runs scored...
Pedersen--and the handful of other scientists working with human embryonic stem cells--uses embryos left over from fertility attempts that would otherwise be thrown away. Still, treating human embryos like so many tissue factories seems straight out of Huxley. It certainly doesn't sit well with antiabortion activists--or, in many cases, with lawmakers. In 1996 Congress banned human-embryo research by federally supported scientists, forcing researchers like Pedersen to seek private funding (most of which has been provided by Geron, a Menlo Park, Calif., biotech company...
...heart of Little Havana, there was a gauntlet of concrete benches, garbage Dumpsters, newspaper boxes, STOP signs, chairs and other objects thrown into the wide streets and burned. "We are peaceful people. We are not violent. Look at what they have turned us into," says Alex Lugo, 34, a math teacher. "Janet Reno is a coward. We want the world to understand that Janet Reno and Fidel Castro have hurt this little...
...able to resume writing, the experience had enriched his understanding, and, as he writes in his new book, Still Here, "it gave me an encounter with a kind of physical suffering that often accompanies aging." Had it happened when he was young, he says, he would have been thrown into turmoil. "I can accept more now because I have a model of reality...