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Forget the widely unloved redesign. Facebook has committed a greater offense. According to a new study by doctoral candidate Aryn Karpinski of Ohio State University and her co-author Adam Duberstein of Ohio Dominican University, college students who use the 200 million-member social network have significantly lower grade-point averages (GPAs) than those...
...followed by a point-clinching win for the No. 3 pairing of junior Michael Hayes and freshman Alistair Felton (8-1). Gloss was duly applied at No. 1; sophomore Alexei Chijoff-Evans and co-captain Chris Clayton fought back against the Quaker’s Hicham Laalej and Adam Schwartz to win 8-7 (7-5).Harvard continued to dominate in the singles. At No. 2, Chijoff-Evans defeated Jonathan Boym in a comprehensive 6-2, 6-1 win, doubling the Crimson advantage.But a stirring Penn comeback leveled the scores. Straight set defeats at No?...
...chests heaving to suck in oxygen. The smell of sweat intermingled with the scent of the mountain sage bushes we were crushing under our cumulative weight. My head rang with the sound of returning fire coming from the guy on my left as he aimed at the darkness below. Adam Ferguson, TIME's photographer, actually stood up to take pictures. It felt like we were taking fire from all sides, but in the dark it's hard to tell. But then, across the road, I could see muzzle flashes coming up from the hillside below. Our protective cocoon of humvee...
...polo players forged Harvard’s first foray into the sport, and by the late 1920s, the team tasted real success under the leadership of Forrester A. Clark Jr. ’58, a six-goal outdoors player. In the 1950s and 60s, Crocker himself, his best friend Adam Winthrop ’61, and Russell B. Clark ’61 further legitimized the sport on campus—but with neither official University recognition, nor the requisite resources, the survival of Harvard polo remained tenuous...
...Crocker’s eldest son, 43-year-old Adam—Adam Winthrop’s namesake—is the last American player to have obtained the highest possible rating of ten-goals (the scale begins at -2). Now Nick is a four-goal player recruited to play for money—something that happens to only one to three out of a hundred collegiate players, he says...