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This week, the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) refused to let the club build its new sailing facility at an MDC-owned site on the Somerville shore of the Mystic River Basin...
Radcliffe sailors had to settle for second place behind M.I.T. Sunday in the M.I.T. Women's Invitational Regatta. M.I.T. topped the Cliffie sailors. 72-80, while Boston University finished third with 99 points. The regatta was held on the Charles River Basin. the site of Radcliffe's victory in the Women's National Intercollegiate Sailing Championship last June...
Ferocious Neighbors. The evidence comes, in part, from Africa's Omo River Basin, a fossil-rich area where the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya and the Sudan meet. There, a University of Chicago expedition has found 40 prehistoric teeth and two jawbones buried in volcanic ash that is perhaps 4,000,000 years old. The expedition's leader, Anthropologist F. Clark Howell, is convinced that the creatures are members of the Australopithecus family, even though they must have belonged to a branch that probably did not eat meat or make tools. Despite their proximity to various ferocious neighbors...
...bland a story Deneuve brings, of course, her exquisite face and presence-eerily evocative of a warmer Grace Kelly. There is something incongruous about a 9-to-5 Deneuve; she knows it, and plays straight a brief scene where, as Tired Working Girl, she soaks her feet in a basin. The day she quits her job she leaps back into bed-fully clothed. These moments lend life to a minor, if remarkably accurate evocation of a certain sort of life. But it gives Deneuve a chance only to mark time until she can slip into something less comfortable...
...prophet of "ekistics," meaning the science of human settlements. His planning and design firms employ more than a thousand people in Athens, Washington and 17 other cities. His smallest projects these days are complete university campuses, his largest embrace thousands of square miles, such as the River Plate Basin Development Program, involving new towns and transportation in five South American countries. A better stimulator of ideas than he is a designer, he is also a tireless preacher of the notion that ekistics must include many different disciplines...