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...have dreams and you make plans," Lockbaum said, "and sometimes they don't work out how you want them to. You just have to adapt and that's the same way with a ball game. We wanted to be up 30 or 40 by halftime, but we weren...
Berner quickly dismisses speculation that a change in the oxygen supply had anything to do with the extinction of dinosaurs. "It was a very slow change, over millions of years," he observes. "And most organisms easily adapt." Next comes testing bubbles in 300 million-year-old amber...
Brown was solid, but Harvard was spectacular,looking more like an NCAA Final Four contingentthan any other time this season. Play revolvedaround the Crimson's run-and-gun style, with theBruins forced to adapt to Harvard's tendency toplay lots of balls into...
...injuries and inconsistency haven't stopped the Crimson. An 8-0-2 overall record, the top spot in the Ivy League (3-0), and a fifth-place national ranking attest to Harvard's ability to adapt to all situations. The Crimson is the only team in the national top 10 sporting an undefeated mark...
...rumble in software. Lotus and Microsoft, the top independent U.S. producers of personal-computer programs, each announced plans to invade the other's turf. The battleground: the $400 million market for spreadsheets, or electronic business ledgers. Microsoft, which sells Excel software for Apple Computer's Macintosh models, plans to adapt its program for IBM- compatible computers. Lotus, which designed the best-selling 1-2-3 program for IBM machines, promises to bring out a version of that software for the Mac. Microsoft -- led by Bill Gates, its boyish-looking billionaire chairman -- may have an edge. The IBM version of Excel...