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After a mid-week Metro League win over Amherst, 40-4, the Harvard men's rugby club lost to its toughest opponent Saturday, as the East took on the West in front of 100 spectators at Soldiers Field. The Crimson was pummelled, 45-9, by Cal-Berkeley, leaving Harvard 7-3 overall and 4-1 in the league as it heads into the New England Championships this weekend...
Harvard Co-Captain Scott Hilinski noted how a game like Saturday's against Berkeley is an enjoyable opportunity to test the Crimson's skills against a superior opponent without losing ground in its league standings...
Even as the earth rocked and rolled, California's army of seismologists rallied into action. In Berkeley, University of California graduate student Anthony Lomax felt the sidewalk shiver and watched telephone poles sway, then rushed to his seismographic station. "The instruments were off-scale!" he marveled. Within minutes the scientists on duty had pinpointed the epicenter of the quake in the rugged Santa Cruz mountains some 50 miles away. The spot was no surprise: it lay on the San Andreas fault, a great gash in the earth that extends nearly the length of the California coast. Even before the quake...
Like a river with multiple tributaries, the San Andreas is associated with numerous lesser faults, among them the Hayward fault, which undercuts Berkeley and Oakland, and the San Jacinto fault, near San Bernardino. Some parts of the San Andreas are more dangerous than others. One segment that lies to the south of the Santa Cruz mountains does not appear prone to large jolts at all. "It just creeps along," says geophysicist Ross Stein of the USGS. "Probably & there's some remarkable material down there that, like talcum powder, acts as a lubricant...
After doctoral study at the University of Minnesota and a teaching stint at the University of California at Berkeley, Mas-Colell secured a tenured post at Harvard...