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Once Harvard broke the 30-point barrier in Saturday's game in Hanover, the Crimson was no longer statistically the underdog of the game...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, | Title: Ivy League Honors Andre | 11/2/1993 | See Source »

...making solar energy so hot? For one thing, the technology is getting better and cheaper. The price of the photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight to electricity has fallen precipitously from $500 a watt in the 1960s to about $4 today. Companies are now rushing to break the $2 barrier, which would reduce the residential cost of solar electricity from 30 cents per kWh to near the 12 cents average price of electricity in California. Leading contestants in the scramble are Texas Instruments and Southern California Edison, which have joined forces to produce flexible solar panels from inexpensive low-grade silicon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes the Sun | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

Although Harvard failed to move past a historic barrier as a team, Giardi thumbed his nose to the football ghosts by breaking a Harvard record that has lasted 78 years...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, | Title: Ghosts of Games Past | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

Amber L. Keasey '94 just wanted to do a little thesis research during the summer. Examining and recording the mating habits of fish in the Great Barrier Reef seemed a safe enough project, but little did she know it would be hazardous to her health...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Welcome to the Jungle | 9/25/1993 | See Source »

...Ellen's presence. The two fall in furtive love. But it is not falling so much as tiptoeing in the dark. Once he kisses her slipper; later he unbuttons her glove and kisses her wrist, then her mouth, which opens more in anguish than in lust. Guilt is the barrier between their lips. And both could be underestimating sweet May; the child has a will and means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Fellow in Old New York | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

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