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...home waters of the Charles River proved especially warm for the Harvard sailing team during its opening weekend of the fall campaign, as the fifth-ranked co-eds and the No. 4 women took first place in three Massachusetts regattas and earned a 12th-place nod at a race in New Haven, Conn...
Kovacs and Dolbec paced Harvard in the team’s 12th-place showing at the Harry Anderson Trophy on Saturday and Sunday in New London, Conn. The duo took second place in A-division, 20 points behind division and regatta winner Boston College...
...pair of freshmen who placed ninth and 10th in the overall field. Thea Lee finished in 19:45 and Eliza Ives crossed the line in 19:46. In fact, all of Harvard’s top seven finishers were freshmen on the women’s side, including a 12th-place finish by Renata Cummins and a 17th-place run by Meghan Houser. BU and Brown downed the women’s team, which finished 2-2 on the day. For the men, sophomore Robert Kenney finished 10th, leading the Crimson in 27:18 on an eight-kilometer course...
...millenniums, China hardly touched the mighty Mekong, content to let its raging headwaters flow unimpeded from the Tibetan plateau down through Laos, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. But over the past few years, the emergent superpower has begun turning the world's 12th-longest river into a highway for regional commerce and a source of hydroelectric power. For many Indochinese entrepreneurs, increased China trade and investment has allowed a backward region to participate in their upstream neighbor's remarkable economic expansion. Southeast Asian governments hope China will share the electricity it will harness after a series of massive dams...
...when it retreated to the island in 1949; curators in Taipei don't dare let the artifacts travel to the mainland for fear that they might not return. (Sportingly, China has loaned objects in the other direction - earlier this year, the National Palace Museum received 12 sets of rare 12th century porcelain from Henan, and gave them big play in a grand reopening exhibition following a long renovation...