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Late in the first half of last night's Harvard-Boston College matchup, Eagle guard Dana Barros was caught under the basket, in the air, with the ball, without many options...
Then Dana Barros started to take charge. The star Eagle guard woke up his squad with a basket under the backboard, and was fouled on the play. Barros, who scored 17 points in the half, made the free throw and started to break the Harvard press...
...fund shareholders suffered equally when the market splintered. Though the term mutual fund is used to refer to any basket of investments that shareholders own jointly, some bushels contain more perishable ingredients than others. Hardest hit were people who gambled on high-growth funds made up of over-the-counter stocks in small companies. As the market shuddered, many investors quickly dumped such risky stocks and bought into blue-chip issues. Result: even when Wall Street tried to rally, the small stocks were left far behind. The worst performers among the high-growth funds included 44 Wall Street Equity, which...
...colleagues disagreed. Last July an IFREMER ship arrived at the site, and over the next 54 days researchers, filmmakers and financial backers made 32 dives in the submersible Nautile. The salvagers used two remote manipulator arms to pluck objects from the ocean floor and place them in a collecting basket. There were, notes Keranflech, "strange anomalies -- a silver plate still as bright as if it had just been polished. Crystal glasses, beautiful porcelain plates and cups. When we brought them to the surface, ; everyone rushed up to see. We wanted to expose them to the air as little as possible...
Never recommend the Japanese basket trick when the future Queen Mother of Britain is within earshot...