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Though the power play unit received a much-needed boost with three goals on the man-advantage against Brown last week, the Bears currently sport a 59.5 penalty kill percentage, worst in the ECAC. Not surprisingly, the Catamounts held the Crimson power play scoreless on six attempts last Saturday...
...light of the paucity of OCS's endorsement procedure, it is particularly disconcerting to learn how many seemingly viable candidates are turned away on the assumption they would not be competitive. In my own entryway, three candidates with compelling credentials were not endorsed. One was a captain of a sports team who was also the best athlete in the Ivy League in his sport, another a leader of one of Harvard's top four student groups and the third was yours truly, who admittedly dampened his chances with, of all things, a sloppy essay. Perhaps all three of us never...
...Toyota's Prius, a sleek five-seater, gets 52 m.p.g. in city driving and is up to 90% cleaner than the average car. U.S. carmakers, reluctant latecomers, have been shamed into promising hybrid models. But will these fuel sippers sell to a pollutants-be-damned nation enraptured by showy sport utes...
...says Laura Blalock, a Memphis, Tenn., chemist. "But I can't enjoy saving Mother Earth if I'm worrying about getting squashed like a bug." Customers like Blalock won't have long to wait for heftier hybrids. In 2003, Ford will produce a hybrid version of its Escape sport utility, expected to get 40 m.p.g. By then, Toyota's hybrid minivan, the Estima, will probably have reached the U.S. market, along with a hybrid Honda Civic. Proving that hybrids are not necessarily environmentally virtuous, DaimlerChrysler has announced a hybrid version of its monster Durango truck that would get only...
...Sport Featuring Cathy Freeman and nine other jocks who counted...