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...From freshmen to seniors, everyone has been amazing.”ECAC CHAMPIONSHIPSThrough Saturday, the five Harvard swimmers enjoyed a 13th place standing at Pittsburgh University.Junior Kelley Mooney, freshman Robyn Thom, and sophomores Camille Vasquez, Vanda Gyuris, and Katie Faulkner made a valiant effort for the Crimson.Harvard placed 10th in both the 200-yard freestyle and the 400-yard medley relays, as well as 16th in the 200-yard medley and eighth in the 800-yard free.While Faulkner and Mooney posted the only top-10 finishes in any individual event, with seventh in the 500-yard free...
Nine of the 10 known hypervelocity stars were probably set in motion this way, but two postdoctoral students at the Carnegie Institution of Washington suggest that the 10th, known as HE 0437-5439, came not from our galaxy but from the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Mercedes Lopez-Morales and Alcestes Bonanos analyzed the position and speed of HE 0437-5439 and calculated that if it came from the Milky Way's core, it must have been traveling for 100 million years. Yet its color and mass put its age at 35 million years. The alternative is that it came...
Though Richter’s goal sparked an already lively crowd, his offensive play was trumped only by his superb performance in net. Along with strong defense from the Crimson skaters, Richter held the Bulldogs scoreless except for one power-play goal in the 10th minute of the second period, when a shot by the Bulldogs’ Tom Dignard found...
...huge opportunity. We can gain some ground and pull away from Yale tomorrow. In terms of a tie-breaker, we want to win it against them.”Brown, on the other hand, sits at the bottom of the ECAC standings, tied with Dartmouth and Rensselaer for 10th place. Although the Bears notched two straight wins to open February, including the 4-2 victory over Harvard, they enter Saturday night’s action 1-3 in their last four games.Brown sophomore netminder Dan Rosen, the ECAC Goalie of the Week earlier this month, held Harvard off with...
...recruit an additional 2.8 million over the next eight years owing to baby-boomer retirement, growing student enrollment and staff turnover-which is especially rapid among new teachers. Finding and keeping high-quality teachers are key to America's competitiveness as a nation. Recent test results show that U.S. 10th-graders ranked just 17th in science among peers from 30 nations, while in math they placed in the bottom five. Research suggests that a good teacher is the single most important factor in boosting achievement, more important than class size, the dollars spent per student or the quality of textbooks...