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...amusement- park industry, the ruling is another jolt in what has been a bumpy start to the summer scream season. In April a teenager and her 11-year-old cousin were stranded for more than an hour atop the new Insanity ride above the Las Vegas Strip when high winds caused the ride to shut down. At Disney World in Orlando, Fla., a 4-year-old boy died after passing out on Mission: Space, a turbulent motion-simulator ride. (An investigation is under way; no safety problems have been found.) And the new Kingda Ka roller coaster at Six Flags...
...first hint of trouble would probably be no more than shadows flitting through the darkness outside one of the nation's nuclear power reactors. Beyond the fencing, black-clad snipers would take aim at sentries atop guard towers ringing the site. The guards tend to doubt they would be safe in their bullet-resistant enclosures. They call such perches iron coffins, which is what they could become if the terrorists used deadly but easily obtainable .50-cal. sniper rifles...
After an easy 5-2 win over Princeton, the Crimson found itself just out of the league lead with three contests remaining. Penn sat atop the standings, and Harvard could once again look forward to a possible season-ending game that would determine the winner of the conference crown...
...Crimson used the added relay as a final exclamation point to a weekend of dominance: Harvard won 13 of 21 events, and the squad sat atop the EISL podium yet again...
...first Ivy opponent, the Crimson would square off against Dartmouth, the squad picked to finish atop the league in preseason polls...