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...that race, however, Navy downed the Crimson by only one second, Since then, the Sudduth-stroked shell-the 1984 Olympic silver medalist became Harvard's third eight man of the season the day after the Navy race has downed eight-seeded Northeastern by a whopping 10 seconds...
Most experts agree with Harvard Astronomer Fred Whipple, who characterized comets as "dirty snowballs" consisting largely of ice and mineral-rich dust. Comets are thought to originate in the Oort cloud, a distant shell of icy debris believed to surround the solar system and extend out some 10 trillion miles from the sun. Passing stars sometimes dislodge snowballs from the cloud, which can sprout the classic luminous tails of gas and dust as they plunge toward the sun. Most comets whip around the sun and head back out of the solar system. Some, like Halley's, periodically return. But others...
...saving any money from these changes," said Higgins. In addition to buying wastebaskets, the House also has to shell out a nickel for every plastic liner, he said...
...Parker's in the dark about the visitors, though, that's nothing compared to how the Bruins must feel--the Crimson shell will feature just two oarsmen from last year's varsity...
Spock had a sheltered, hard-shell conservative upbringing in a solidly Republican household. He went to Andover, Yale, Yale Medical School and had switched to Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons before meeting his first Democrat. He says he was "absolutely flabbergasted" to find that university-educated people need not be Republicans. At Yale, he took up crew and rowed his way to a gold medal in the 1924 Chariots of Fire Olympics. The victory was "of enormous importance," he says, converting an overprotected mama's boy into a confident young...