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...Harvard sailing team doesn’t launch sloops from its boathouse on the Lower Basin of the Charles, but that didn’t stop them from qualifying for the national championships, as they finished second in the New England qualifiers this weekend...
...Cernuschi loved ancient bronzes-decorative, ceremonial and technologically sophisticated artifacts from China's earliest history. Among his acquisitions in the museum's extensive bronze collection is an enormous basin from the 6th century B.C., the largest of its kind outside China. But the true bronze masterpiece is a work older by some 600 years, the so-called Tigress you (wine vessel), which the museum bought after its patron's death. The vase, from the Shang dynasty (roughly 1550 to 1050 B.C.), was used for ancestor worship, and is shaped like an open-jawed feline, with a child either resting...
...women of Harvard Sailing finished a mere point behind second-place Yale in the Man Labs Regatta, held in Flying Juniors and Tech dinghies on the Lower Basin of the Charles River on Saturday...
...global warming making the problem worse? Superficially, the numbers say yes-or at least they seem to if you live in the U.S. From 1995 to 1999, a record 33 hurricanes struck the Atlantic basin, and that doesn?t include 1992?s horrific Hurricane Andrew, which clawed its way across south Florida in 1992, causing $27 billion dollars worth of damage. More-frequent hurricanes are part of most global warming models, and as mean temperatures rise worldwide, it?s hard not to make a connection between the two. But hurricane-scale storms occur all over the world, and in some...
Even if Las Vegas had not come calling, Great Basin water holes would be in trouble. Across the region, drought, agricultural diversions and overgrazing have done measurable damage, and there are examples in Snake Valley. "We're worried about southern Nevada because we know what we're doing to ourselves," says rancher Dean Baker. "And that's just a drop in the bucket compared to what they're talking about...