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SATURDAY, MAR. 27 W. Hockey 6, UNH 5 (OT) M. Track 72, Rice 62, Minnes. 19 BROWN 10, W. Lax 8 M. LAX 8, Penn...
HOUSTON--The Meeting of the Minds between the Harvard men's track and field team and Rice's squad ended up being as competitive on the track as it is in U.S. News and World Report. HARVARD 72 RICE 62 HARVARD 72 MINNESOTA...
...foreign affairs, Bush has turned to Stanford Provost Condoleezza Rice, a tough-minded Russia scholar who worked for his dad. Her group mixes Reagan-era hard liners with Bush veterans Paul Wolfowitz and Robert Zoellick, who is regarded as suspect by conservatives because of his long association with the ever pragmatic James Baker...
...strain of wheat that was enormously more prolific than its natural cousins. Borlaug's "miracle wheat" allowed Mexico to triple its grain production in a matter of years, and when his hybrid was introduced in south Asia in the mid-1960s, wheat yields there jumped 60%. Miracle strains of rice and other grains followed in short order, triggering a global green revolution that put the lie to Malthus' gloomy calculation. For his role in helping stave off world starvation, Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace...
...says co-director Rideau, who is 57 and has served 38 years in Louisiana prisons on a life sentence for murder. "The award would be nice, but it won't change my life one iota. I will still walk down to the chow hall afterwards for my beans and rice." The Farm examines the bleak struggle of six convicts lost in a living graveyard where few ever get out. Rideau, who taught himself to read and write while on death row for 11 years, kept his story out of the film because, he explains, "it's the only...