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...been mired in an eight-game losing streak, forward Alex Barnett poured in 30 points to lead the Big Green. During the decisive overtime period, Barnett scored six of his team’s 13 points and also added a crucial steal that stopped Harvard’s comeback attempt. In the teams’ last matchup, when Harvard won at Dartmouth 63-62, Barnett was held to only nine points...
...With six minutes left in the first half, Lin chased down Dartmouth’s Marlon Sanders, who was streaking on a breakaway, and swatted Sanders’ layup attempt away...
...After a suitably scholastic detour into the origins of the phrase "molecular gastronomy," (McGee maintained that the term was born at a scientific conference in the early 1990s in an attempt to make inquiries into cooking sound more impressive; physicist Cassi suggested that he coined the phrase some years later), Adrià urged the audience to, essentially, chill out. "If we keep seeing science and cooking as two Martians coming at each other with test tubes, we all lose," he argued. "We have to normalize the relationship between them." A few hours later, as Elena Arzak demonstrated sauces that change...
...This week, in an apparent attempt to block further online manhunts, the city of Xuzhou in Jiangsu province banned the posting of private information about government officials. But authorities may find that those who post such information don't so easily follow orders. "This a metaphor for what the Internet is doing in China," says Xiao. "It is precisely the very [Internet] controllers themselves now being harmed...
...dancing. The first of several joint ventures between the viewers and performers is a rendition of “O Come All Ye Faithful,” which imparts a wonderful added feeling of unity to the show.This warm sensation continues as both the vocally deficient and vocally gifted attempt to sing “The Lord of the Dance,” a catchy tune that propels the program into intermission. However, instead of having people simply stand up and leave the theatre, the “Revels” actors come gallivanting through the aisles, fetching families...