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Rutgers was to be the last of Harvard’s ranked opposition for the regular season, but the Scarlet Knights fell off the national polls just last week, after being ranked as high as 15th in the nation. The drop followed a four-game skid on the road, in which Rutgers lost to only one unranked opponent and was even leading No. 2 Tennessee with seven minutes remaining before the Lady Volunteers sealed...
...Utah Olympic Park (435-658-4200), where all the sliding sports and Nordic jumping took place, you can hop into a bobsled with a driver and hit the curves at 80 m.p.h. and 4 Gs (the equivalent of a 40-story drop in less than a minute). "I could feel my contact lenses slipping down my eyes," says track-maintenance-crew member Alan Powell of his first bobsled ride. Or join up for a program at the park's ski jumps, among the highest-altitude ramps in the world. In the summer, ice is traded for wheels on bobsleds...
...prior to the drop of the puck, the home team’s personnel must notify both teams that three minutes remain before they must begin taking the ice. At 8:00, the officials take the ice. At 7:00, the home team skates on, and 10 seconds later the visiting team does the same...
...nearly 50 percent drop in early applications from last year can largely be attributed to Harvard’s implementation of a more restrictive single-choice early action program this fall. Last year, Harvard allowed early applicants to simultaneously apply to other early action and early decision programs...
...Originally we wanted everything to be based off agreements, but we decided to drop contracts because we’re trying to do this as professionally as possible,” says Zaccagnino. “It’s a really good experience for us to have to make them, and for the bands to have to go through the process of actually committing their name to something...