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Hardy and plentiful as they seem, frogs are actually very frail things, with a semipermeable skin that leaves them vulnerable to even the slightest hiccup in their environment. So when entire species of brightly colored harlequin frogs started dying off in the cloud forests of Central and South America about 25 years ago, scientists suspected that something in the amphibians' ecosystems--they weren't sure what--had gone awry...
...goalie, Kate Lane, seeing red.“I thought we put a lot of pressure on them,” Harvard head coach Katey Stone said. “I felt like we played pretty hard for almost sixty minutes. We had one hiccup in the game down the stretch. We’re not that kind of team—we can’t spend that much time in our defensive zone.”After freshman Jenny Brine scored her third goal of the night on a play in which she charged into the net, Lane...
...yard line, thanks to a forced fumble and sack by Balkema. This marked the first of four fumbles by Columbia.“The last couple of weeks we’ve been working on stripping the ball, not just getting the hit,” Thomas said.After this hiccup the Crimson came back in full force, charging down the field in seven plays to make it 7-0 on a six-yard touchdown run from junior running back Clifton Dawson.After breaking the Crimson’s all-time rushing record last weekend, Dawson was able to rest this week...
...somebody’s house under the plans,” said Kevin McCluskey, the University’s director of community relations for Boston, who quickly removed the eraser-sized gray house jamming the tabletop model of Harvard’s properties in Allston. It was the only hiccup in a media tour yesterday afternoon of the new “Harvard in Allston Exhibit Room” in the Holyoke Center arcade. Students, faculty, and Allston residents will tour the room, which houses the model and roughly a dozen maps, and comment on Harvard’s plans...
...Harvard field hockey team, the 2005 season has been one of streaks. The defense has played spectacularly the whole way, save one hiccup against Duke. But coming into Sunday’s Ivy matchup against Cornell, the Crimson had also lost four consecutive games. Unfortunately for Harvard, the latter streak wasn’t broken in Ithaca, N.Y. The Big Red (6-4, 4-1 Ivy) downed the Crimson (5-6, 1-2) 2-1 on Sunday afternoon as Harvard found itself on the wrong side of another close contest. Five of the team’s six losses this...