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...Bayou Classic—hosted by Rice University—the Crimson men took sixth with individual wins by junior Samyr Laine and junior Kevin Duffy. Overall, the team ended up with 48 points, not far from winner Texas’ 68.5 points...
Other impressive efforts included that of senior Kristoffer Hinson, who took second in the shot put, and senior Alasdair McLean-Foreman, who took third in the 1,500 meter run. The Harvard women did one better than the men, taking fifth overall with 52 points. Rice won this side of the meet with...
...ancestors were using it for hundreds of years." But nobody expected Japan's brewing firms to push sake's alternative use quite so vigorously. "We wanted to promote sake to people who didn't drink it," says Yasuko Okitsu of Fukumitsuya Sake Brewery (ff-style.com), which has at least three rice-based skin-care lines, with some products made with nonalcoholic sake. "Sake is good for the skin and health; it has a lot of benefits...
...Endorsement from top Japanese celebrities?like actress Mami Kumagai, who has been using Fukumitsuya's Amino Rice line?hasn't done any harm either. Some producers are now trying to boost skin-care goods to 50% of all sake sales, and hope that the current buzz is more than just a passing fad. If it isn't, they'll certainly have plenty of sake left over in which to drown their sorrows...
...stand on the dike, I look in all directions. I see no visible military targets, no industry, no communication lines--just rice fields. Then I suddenly see the bomb craters on both sides of the dike--gaping holes, some 10 meters across and eight meters deep. The crater bottoms, I am told, are two meters below sea level. The crater that had severed the dike is almost filled in again, but the main worry is the bombs that have fallen on the sides of the dike. They cause earthquakes that shatter the dike's foundation and make deep cracks that...