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...high jump placed her first in the event, with Emde taking second with her season-best jump of 1.67 meters. Senior co-captain Molly Boyle threw a personal best 16.25 meter distance to win the weight throw event and classmate Clara Blattler captured the win in the pole vault, clearing 3.75 meters. Junior Aishlinn O’Callaghan’s 2:12.40 time in the 800 meter was her personal best and qualified her for the ECAC Championships. The men’s side did not fare as well, finishing with only 25 points. Princeton, ranked...
...Stanton said. “Indoors is a lot different from outdoors and from cross-country and Claire’s cross-country.” The women’s squad also offered notable showings in the field events, including three top-10 finishes. In the pole vault, Stanton and classmate Clara Blattler cleared a 10th place height of 3.45 meters (11’3”) and a runner-up height of 3.70 meters (12’1”), respectively. Becky Christensen led Harvard high jumpers with a 1.73 meter (5’8”) jump...
Senior Molly Boyle had a career afternoon in the weight throw, winning the event with a heave of 15.98 meters. Co-captain Sally Stanton continued her form from last weekend’s breakthrough event, equaling her career-best pole vault mark of 3.75 meters in winning the event. Fellow senior Clara Blattler cleared 3.65 meters to take second place...
...ensure that an agricultural doomsday never comes, Fowler and his colleagues have organized the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, an international seed bank built into a mountain on a Norwegian island in the Arctic. A Fort Knox for seeds, the vault will be a backup for the backups and will eventually be expanded to include genetic samples of every crop on the planet. The first shipments, from more than 36 African nations, arrived at the end of January, and there will be room for as many as 4.5 million samples once the facility opens Feb. 26. The specimens will be kept...
...need for the vault grows even greater as industrial agriculture continues to narrow the genetic diversity of plants, focusing on select, high-producing crop varieties. Global warming will also create demand for a stockpile of seeds that may not be suited to today's growing conditions but could be just right for tomorrow's. "We'll need crop varieties for hotter, dryer, wetter and colder climates," says Fowler. Sometime in the future, the vault of last resort could end up more like...