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N.J. Postal Worker's Illness Identified as Pulmonary Anthrax
By CAROL MORELLO AND JUSTIN BLUM | Oct. 29, 2001A New Jersey postal worker was determined to have pulmonary anthrax Sunday, and health officials reiterated their advice that thousands of people who handle mail at their jobs in the District of Columbia take preventive antibiotics.
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Hilbert Shines on U.N. Day
By STACIE DOPKO | Oct. 29, 2001The message was clear: build on what has been awakened in America and do not let the deaths of Sept.
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Campus Radio Looking to Give UB a Weekly RUB
By BRYAN PERRY | Oct. 29, 2001UB's on-campus radio station, WRUB, soon hopes to expand its program offering with "The Weekly Rub," a public access television show entirely produced by the station's staff.With the weekly show, WRUB intends to reach students via the campus cable network's free channel space, as well as provide its WRUB-TV members a chance to produce a weekly program, according to Brian Milbrand, executive producer of WRUB's TV programming.The show will feature music video programming "[students] cannot see anywhere else," according to Milbrand, along with original films and scripted features on an as-completed basis.
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"Two Close Losses Bring Bulls to 0-12 MAC, 5-17 Overall"
By SUNG CHO | Oct. 29, 2001Well, they were close.Last weekend, the women's volleyball team took to the road, and picked up two more losses as they faced Bowling Green University and Central Michigan University.
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No End In Sight
By ELIZABETH M. FOX-SOLOMON | Oct. 29, 2001"This is a new business, and no one has any answers or any real plans on what's the best way to do it." - recently retired CIA senior intelligence officialUncertainty is the prevailing ethos enveloping our nation and its political leadership.
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"Who's Who Around UB: Mary Harley Gresham, Ph.D."
Oct. 29, 2001549 Capen Hall (716) 645-2997 gresham@buffalo.eduThe PositionMary Harley Gresham is the dean of the Graduate School of Education and the vice president for Public Service and Urban Affairs at UB.
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Is The MCAT Still Worth Its Weight?
By BRENDAN MCGARRY | Oct. 29, 2001Despite a national decrease in medical school applications, the Medical College Admissions Test continues to play a significant, although not exclusive, role in the medical school admissions process.The competition for acceptance to medical schools is extremely fierce, with the number of applicants to U.S.
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Weekend Scoreboard
Oct. 29, 2001UBFootballEastern Michigan 24, Buffalo 20Men's SoccerBuffalo 1, Western Michigan 1Women's Soccerno games scheduledVolleyballBowling Green 3, Buffalo 0Central Michigan 3 Buffalo 0Cross CountryMens: 5th place finish at MAC championshipsWomen: 11th place finish at MAC championshipsProfessionalBuffalo BillsSan Diego 27, Buffalo 24Buffalo SabresMontreal 5, Buffalo 2New Jersey 3, Buffalo 1
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Bulls Report Card
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG | Oct. 29, 2001Eastern Michigan 24, Buffalo 20Passing OffenseFor the second-straight game the offensive line turned in a solid performance by giving quarterback Joe Freedy the time he needed to find the open man.
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Adulthood is Inevitable
By STACIE DOPKO | Oct. 29, 2001Adulthood looms. I can feel it. I'm a senior and what Bill Cosby has said is true: college is a four-year suspension of reality.
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Bayanihan Shares Beauty of Filipino Dance
Oct. 29, 2001The world-renowned Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company brought a glimpse of the rich and diverse Filipino culture to the Center for the Arts Mainstage Theatre Friday night.
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To Dorm or Not to Dorm?
By AMIN SIAD | Oct. 29, 2001The decision of where to live can be a tough choice for students at UB. Living on campus or moving into an off-campus apartment both offer benefits and drawbacks and students are forced to weigh competing considerations in selecting their residence of choice.Living on campus, for example, tends to integrate students more fully into the campus and the university community.
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Letter To The Editor
By DENIS MURADOV | Oct. 29, 2001To The Editor:"Bring Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda to justice," - in other words have them be dead or preferably trialed, then dead.
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"U.S. Warplanes Pound Taliban Troops, Rumsfeld Says"
By ESTHER SCHRADER AND RONE TEMPEST | Oct. 29, 2001WASHINGTON - U.S. warplanes over Afghanistan are pounding Taliban front-line troops with increasing frequency and to devastating effect, as forces of the fundamentalist Islamic regime move into the open to escape strikes on their hideaways, Defense Secretary Donald H.
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She Survived the Falls But Fell to Gender Bias
By STACIE DOPKO | Oct. 29, 2001One hundred years ago, the myth of Niagara Falls was conquered when an unlikely local survived a barrel trip over the falls.
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Bin Laden Assassination
By Editorial | Oct. 29, 2001When President Bush alarmed many Americans by declaring bin Laden "Wanted: dead or alive," he meant it.
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"For Better or Worse, NBA Will Play With Off-Season Swaps"
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG | Oct. 29, 2001Each new day brings sports fans that much closer to the start of the 2001-2002 National Basketball Association season.
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Eagles Fourth-Quarter Trick Dupes Bulls 24-20
By MATT ALBERT | Oct. 29, 2001In the spirit of the season, the Bulls felt like they had received a special Halloween treat when Joe Freedy's pass intended for Dan Lindsay deflected off Lindsay's fingertips and ricocheted directly into the waiting arms of Maurice Bradford.
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Too Much Is Enough
By SARA PAULSON | Oct. 26, 2001"Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday ... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production."- Ayn Rand.Every year, when the time comes for me to move all my stuff out of my room at home and up to Buffalo or from my room at UB back home, I'm amazed at the sheer quantity of what I own.It doesn't look like much, especially when it somehow gets squeezed into my cereal box of a dorm room, and yet it takes me two or three car trips to lug everything to where it's supposed to be.Why do I have so much stuff?
