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...Good Night and Good Luck Essayist Pamela Paul discussed the ongoing debate over the best way to get a baby to sleep [Nov. 28]. My wife and I resorted to Dr. Richard Ferber's "cry it out" technique with our first son so that we could get some well-deserved shut-eye. Our boy was gifted with an operatic set of lungs. On the second or third night, we were watching the clock and gnashing our teeth at our baby's megadecibel wails. Finally we dashed into his room to comfort him and found that one of his legs...
...past Dartmouth. But last night it was the new addition, freshman Jenny Brine, who inherited the digit shining with a three-goal performance in a thorough 4-1 conquest of the Big Green. “Maybe nine’s a lucky number,” Brine said. Luck, though, is only part of the story. “I guess it’s luck too,” Brine said. “But you have to know where the bounces are going to come from and be able to read what your linemates are going...
...long season, that’s for sure. The Harvard women’s hockey team takes the ice for its first practice in mid-October, plays its first game before Halloween, and doesn’t finish until some time in March. All told, depending on its luck in the post-season, the squad will skate in between 29 and 37 contests. It will log countless miles on the road—venturing to such diverse locales as Duluth, Minn. and Canton, N.Y.—and shifts on the rink. Coach Katey Stone’s Crimson skaters...
When you're lying on a beach in Mauritius and suddenly have the urge to surf?the Web that is, not the waves?you're in luck. The small (pop: 1.2 million) tropical paradise in the Indian Ocean was racing to become the first country in the world with complete wireless Internet coverage, but Macedonia laid claim to that title a few months ago. Mauritian officials say that Macedonia's wi-fi technology, which creates a number of hot-spot "clouds" to cover the country, could lead to connections dropping out. Mauritius is using the newer and fast-growing WiMax...
...warned that some smaller explosions might occur later today as other tanks at the site-there are 20, holding up to 3 million gallons each-succumb to the heat of the blaze. Whiteley said 36 people were injured, 4 seriously, but so far no deaths-a remarkable stroke of luck he attributed to the timing of the explosion early on a Sunday morning...