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Both the heavyweight and lightweight crews, which appeared invincible in recent regattas, saw their perfect records blemished this weekend. The heavyweights met defeat at the hands of Ivy rival Penn, while the lightweights finished behind an unheralded Yale crew...
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...lightweight crew team continued its unbeaten ways on Saturday as the Crimson easily defeated host Navy in Annapolis...
While the heavyweight crews tore up the river in New Hampshire, the varsity lightweight four continued its undefeated season by posting a victory at Worcester. Radcliffe finished with open water ahead of three other schools: Connecticut College, University of Albany and Holy Cross...
That is the theory. In practice, it's more complicated. The reactors must be built of materials that are both lightweight and capable of withstanding extraordinary temperature changes, from several hundred degrees below zero to several thousand degrees above. To reduce the risk of fatal meltdowns, the uranium fuel must be packed in tiny particles coated with several layers of carbon alloy and carefully machined to very close tolerances. And because the fuel gives off "hot" -- meaning radioactive -- by-products, it is inevitable that the escaping gas will pick up some radioactivity...