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...with his little son Toby. It was, of course, a tamed and gentle forest, guaranteed to be free of dangerous animals, but it made an exciting contrast to the rolling sand dunes of their last environment in the Saudi desert -- and the one before that, on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. But when the Skylift Service had moved the house this time, something had gone wrong with the food-recycling system. Though the electronic menus had fail-safe backups, there had been a curious metallic taste to some of the items coming out of the synthesizer recently...
...Cross in possession time Saturday. Harvard held the ball for 33:24, while Holy Cross for 26:36. Of course, when the Crusaders had the ball, they scored...Harvard record fans should take note: With 696 wins, the Crimson is just three games shy of breaking the 700 win barrier that only three other football programs have broken. Yale (768), Michigan (725) and Notre Dame (705) have already surpassed the mark...
Manon Rheaume has quietly broken one barrier after another, by becoming the first woman player in Canada's Major Junior Hockey League, and leading the national women's team to a 1992 world title. So when she played goalie for the Tampa Bay Lightning last week, to become the first woman player in the N.H.L., she believed a final barrier had been crossed. But not quite. "Did you break a nail?" asked a straight-faced sportswriter...
Instead, the Crimson (3-3 over-all, 1-1 Ivy) hopes that in its game against Pennsylvania, it will find that all important win to push Harvard over the 500 barrier...
Women may not show up on the Porcellian's punch list this week, but they have broken through the gender barrier in one overwhelmingly male activity at Harvard: boxing...