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...took the lead on Harvard’s only penalty of the period after co-captain David MacDonald went to the box for boarding at 7:40. Fifty-four seconds later, Pete MacArthur unleashed a slapshot that trickled over the goal line after striking Richter on his glove-side pads...
...phone in a rental car in Chicago, the unfamiliar voice on the other end asked the founder of a nonprofit for urban high school graduates if she were alone and sitting down. He then told her that she would be receiving a half-million dollar grant through the MacArthur Fellows Program...
...fellows receive the money over five years after being chosen by a small, confidential selection committee. The candidates must first be nominated anonymously, according to the MacArthur Fellows Web site...
Daniel J. Socolow, director of the MacArthur Fellows Program, said that the frequently applied term “genius grant,” is a misnomer that suggests a too-narrow definition of achievement. This year’s 24 fellows come from a wide range of fields and do vastly different things, but, Socolow said, “one thing they do have in common is this remarkable streak of creativity...
...What really surprised and delighted web viewers was the cavalry charge of the returning buffalos, who put themselves in the path of the predators to save the good-as-gone baby. Cape buffalo, after all, are not the MacArthur Fellows of the animal world. They're lumbering, quarrelsome and predictable in their movements and, says Houpt, "40% of them wind of them up in the belly of lions." But that means 60% don't, and the rescue that the Kruger group pulled off was actually nothing particularly special among herding species...