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Yesterday morning on the Charles River, the Harvard lightweight crews swept all Techie competition, starting with the varsity's 15-second win and reaching all the way down to the second freshman boats...
BATTERIES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE ACHILLES' HEEL of electric cars; you can make one that's rugged, but it's bound to be too heavy, too bulky and unable to store enough electricity. Or you can make a lightweight, efficient battery using a liquid containing lithium salts as the energy-storage medium, and risk leakage or fire in the case of an accident. Now three Arizona State University chemists have an answer that is literally a clever solution. By dissolving lithium not into liquid but into polymer (plastic), they have paved the way for a high-power battery that...
Some of the lightweight competitors won major decisions, earning the team four points per each victory instead of the usually allotted three...
...lightweight members of the squad pulled more than their weight in the Crimson effort, building a 17-0 lead in the early going, a lead which Harvard would not relinquish despite a strong Princeton comeback...
Director David Wheeler seems convinced that this portrayal of overbred beauties and Hedonists just before the advent of World War I is a lightweight social comedy of manners, instead of what it is--a very angry criticism of the self-absorbed upper classes. There is a deep bitterness in Shaw's depiction of these characters, frittering away their energy in "kissing and coaxing [and] laughing" instead of being concerned about the state of the outside world...