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Whatever the ultimate consequences of population growth may be, it is important to remember the danger of treating statistics as mere numbers. Regardless of the millennial hoopla that Y6B will doubtless create, its cumulative environmental, economic, and humanitarian effects are what we can ill afford to forget...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: 6,000,000,001: A Population Odyssey | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

With the defense playing so well, it seemed that Harvard would cruise to that ultimate final score. The defense kept snuffing the run, limiting Thompson to 27 total yards on the day while his whole team rushed for a mere 61. But Holy Cross, as it did all day, refused to give...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Football Wins Again, Now 2-0 | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...took over at the 21-yard line. The next play, sophomore wideout Kendy Hall ran a fade pattern--almost a mirror image of the one Green ran at the end of the game--and made a nice leaping catch to make the score 14-3 at 0:57, a mere 18 seconds after the first strike...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Football Wins Again, Now 2-0 | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...Iowans, including Governor Tom Vilsack, came in droves to applaud, cheer and gawk at the stars. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED called the event, the 20th Senior U.S. Open golf tournament, "the biggest thing to hit the state since Pope John Paul II's visit," which happened 20 years earlier. The mere arrival in town of Arnold Palmer, about to turn 70, made headlines in the statewide newspaper, the Des Moines Register...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Professional Sports: Those Rich Old Pros | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...though the Big One were finally here. Experts had been warning for years about the imminent arrival of Hurricane X, the killer storm that the law of averages dictates must sooner or later strike the coastal U.S., making such legendary monsters as Andrew, Hugo and Camille seem like mere squalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Very Close Call | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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