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Overcoming blustery winds, choppy conditions, and first-race jitters, the Radcliffe crew burst into the Spring rowing season Saturday, outclassing an inexperienced Syracuse squad in both four-and eight-oared competition on the Charles River Basin...
...antiquities evaporate from sites in Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Lebanon, Israel and Italy every year. Treasure worth millions of dollars more is plundered from Latin America and the countries of Southeast Asia. Some $3,000,000 in booty originates in Italy alone, the richest source of plunder in the Mediterranean basin...
Berkshire Snow Basin--Varied conditions, with only a few good surfaces. Base, 2-7. Butternut Basin Good although spring conditions prevail in some spots. Wet snow with a base of 4-30 inches...
...Texas, has long yearned for a new 9.7-mile highway link between Interstate 34 and Interstate Loop 410. Engineers have routed the asphalt swath right through some of the city's least built-up land, which unfortunately includes about 250 acres of the heavily used Brackenridge and Olmos Basin public parks. Aroused local conservationists, while arguing unsuccessfully for another, more expensive route for the road, successfully stymied the project in court. For one thing, the proposed road violates the Transportation Act, which bans federally assisted highways from cutting through parks unless there are no "feasible alternatives." For another...
Like an insect version of Genghis Khan, the fierce Brazilian bees are coming. Millions of them are swarming northward from the Amazon basin at the rate of 200 miles a year, liquidating passive colonies of native bees in their path, quick to sting-and sometimes kill-any unwary animal or person. At their present rate they will conquer all of South America in the next ten years, and start to invade Central America. Unless stopped by man, the bees will eventually invade Mexico and the southern...