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...from secure until the bottom of the eighth, when sophomore shortstop Mark Mager's 2-RBI double keyed a four-run inning for Harvard...
...four-run home eighth inning secured the win. Pena bobbled a Llanes line drive, allowing him to reach first to open the inning. Carmack got on base after a Henry offering hit his ankle, and San Salvador's single loaded the bases with no outs. After Bridich struck out, Llanes scored on a pitch that squirted through catcher Luke Carlin's mitt and ended up several yards behind him. Mager's second double brought two runs home, and Henry was done...
...Game 1, the teams went into extra innings before Dartmouth scored three in the top half of the eighth to win 7-4. Freshman Mike Mileusnic hit a single and ran all the way around to score on a defensive error by the Bears' infield. Dartmouth then creamed Brown in the nightcap...
...goes some of the advice in The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook (Chronicle Books; 176 pages; $14.95), an improbable how-to manual that recently has been climbing the paperback nonfiction best-seller list and is now in its eighth printing. In addition to bad animal encounters, it probes life-threatening predicaments you'll almost certainly never face. For examples, the book offers straight-faced tips on how to escape quicksand (don't fight it, float on it); how to survive if your parachute fails to open (if a fellow skydiver is nearby--and that's one big if--grab...
When a baby is born in Rwanda, a traditional ceremony takes place on the eighth day of the child's life. Banana beer is served, and the community gathers as the newborn is brought out and held up to the sky. The infant is scrutinized, and names are suggested by family, friends and neighbors until the father hears one that sounds right...