38Days that a girl in St. Petersburg, Fla. was consecutively hiccupping; she stopped on March 1. Source: The Associated Press

On national television, Brown junior guard Damon Huffman contributed little in his 12 minutes against Michigan State. He made one field goal and tallied three steals. Huffman then missed the next seven games due to a knee injury. The Bears (10-17, 5-7 Ivy) went 3-4 during that period without Huffman.

Too bad Penn's first win in a month had to be tainted by bad tennis etiquette. Following a 7-0 shutout of Drexel (1-3), sophomore Jonathan Boym, neglected to shake opponent Omar Laalej's hand after Boym won a heated 7-6, 6-4 battle until his coach Mark Riley forced him to return to the court.

Men's golf coach Rob Powelson isn't shy about how his team stacks up to the competition. "I don't think there is another Ivy League program that works as hard as we do in the offseason," Powelson said. The Quakers are coming off an impressive fall season in which they came in second in the Big 5 Classic and came in second place in two other tournaments.

A female University faculty member was assaulted on the 3100 block of Walnut Street Monday afternoon, marking the eighth assault in nine days on or near Penn's campus. The woman was walking eastbound on Walnut Street at about 3 p.m. when she was approached by an unknown male who struck her in the face, Division of Public Safety officials said.

There are many options for spring break locations - some are good, some are bad, and some involve tear-away pants.

SPEC made a good, albeit safe, decision by picking Ben Folds to headline Spring Fling.

Family and friends will gather on Friday to pay their respects to Chemistry professor Alan MacDiarmid. The service for MacDiarmid, a Nobel Prize laureate who taught and researched chemistry at Penn for 52 years, follows his death three weeks ago at age 79.

City Controller Alan Butkovitz responded to a recent downgrading of Philadelphia School District's bond rating by Fitch Ratings at a press conference yesterday. The school district's bond rating is now one of the lowest in the nation. Butkovitz said one reason for the lower rating was that, "contrary to the school district's statements and reports," it has not balanced their budget for the past four years.

For Yohann Sidhwa, next week's spring break is going to be all about work. The College sophomore will be spending his week off from school performing various logistical and other tasks for Securities Industry Institute, a Wharton-run program that begins on March 4.

Confidence breeds success, and that is exactly the ingredient that Leslie King has brought to the Penn softball team. For a team that has not won a league title since 1981 or produced a winning record in 20 years, King, heading into her fourth year with the Quakers, has cultivated a mindset necessary for a championship team.

When it comes to arson, Penn would make Smokey the Bear proud. According to Division of Public Safety statistics from 2002 to 2006, only four intentionally set fires have occurred at Penn: two in 2002, one in 2005 and one last year. A fifth destroyed a house on S.

Next year, an increasing number of students will give up Ben Franklin for Big Ben. Penn Abroad received 567 study-abroad applications for next year's full-year and fall-semester programs, a 19-percent increase from 476 last year. Applications for spring 2008 programs are not due until early next fall.

Joanne Tong is a Wharton junior from Manila, Philippines. Her e-mail address is tong@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Add one more destination to the women's swim team calendar: Aspen, Colo. Even though Penn's season is over, some of the swimmers aren't finished competing. Teammates Tara Gillies, Cammie Villarreal, Laura D'Erasmo, Amy Reams and Nicole Malgeri won a giant Sudok. make that "Snowdoku" puzzle challenge in New York City's Bryant Park on Tuesday and earned a trip to Aspen for their efforts.

5,929Slot machines open for business at the three casinos already running in Pennsylvania. Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer

By joe vester Staff Writer jvester@sas.upenn.edu Most career academics will never know the feeling of being published in Science, one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world. But Boris Zinshteyn knows the feeling well - and he's only 19.