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Despite his earlier-than-expected exit from NCAAs, James Blake earned All-American honors as a result of being seeded higher than 16th in the singles draw...
...couple of Harvard players finished theregular season ranked nationally in severalstatistical categories. Abeles was 20th in thecountry in batting with a .437 average and 16th inRBI with 53 in 53 games. Thoke was ranked 10thnationally in strikeouts per seven innings with anaverage of eight Ks per game...
...professor of history and history and literature, has been awarded the fourth Radcliffe Junior Faculty Fellowship. Blair will spend the next academic year working on a project titled "The Development of the Encyclopedic Reference Work in Early Modern Europe," which studies the evolution of the encyclopedia from the mid-16th century...
...synthetic perfection, the cruise lines have created their own ports of call. Disney's Castaway Cay in the Bahamas features three beaches and a 12-acre snorkeling lagoon. At Coco Cay, Royal Caribbean's 140-acre island, aquamarine waters lap at the white sand beach, while snorkelers explore a 16th century sailing ship and a small plane that the company submerged to give divers a sense of adventure. Alas, what Royal Caribbean calls a controlled shore experience some others have labeled a limited amusement experience. "There's nothing here but some palm trees," complained LaDonne Herring, a nurse who cruised...
...visions of the future still mixed science with superstition, as was demonstrated by Nostradamus. A successful physician in 16th century France (for years he ministered to victims of the plague), he managed to believe both in scientific Copernican astronomy and in astrology. Eventually he turned to the occult. In seven volumes he foretold "the future events of the entire world" (according to his epitaph). In one of his obscure quatrains, he prophesied that in 1999, "from the sky there will come a great King of terror." Nobody knows what that was supposed to mean, but in recent decades many would...