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Harvard was confident going into the finals after its victory over Penn, but more importantly, the Crimson had played together as a cohesive unit...
...returned was a wasteland. Rwanda, a landlocked nation squeezed between Tanzania and the Republic of the Congo, has always been among the most crowded countries on earth--6.7 million people packed into a country the size of Vermont, not a good thing for an agrarian society whose primary economic unit is the family farm. The overpopulation is among the first things a visitor notices--and it has been cited as a sociological cause for the genocide. Rwanda is one of those countries, like India, where you are almost never out of sight of another human being. The entire country...
...Italy, beginning the war with Pompey. His words, "alea jacta est" or "the die is cast," have come to describe a point of no return. Lemieux's title describes the motion of a decisive step, at the beginning of some undertaking-perhaps playing on the Rubicon die as a unit of brick-like rectangles. Whatever she has in store, at least here she crosses the liminal spaces between separate media, between art and artist, between spectator and object...
...defense was dominant all game. Apart from holding the Crimson to mostly outside shots--the only inside shots Harvard attempted consistently were one-timers--Cornell completely shut down the Crimson's man-up unit. Harvard was unable to convert on any of its six extra-man opportunities...
...turns out, the average American puts on a mere 0.8 lb. during the food-filled six weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year's. "It's a myth that adults will gain 5 to 10 lbs. during winter," asserts Jack Yanovski, head of NIH's Growth and Obesity unit, who led the research. On the contrary, Americans gain just a few ounces from September through November, then remain relatively stable from March through August. Over the entire 12 months, the average gain adds up to less than 1 1/2 lbs. So much for that legendary holiday bulge...