Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge, it cost a quarter to ride from Harvard Square to Braintree, or Boston College, or Boston College, or anywhere else on Boston's subway network Two years later, though, the ride is three times as costly, thanks to a fare increase approved in mid-summer by Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) officials...
Another local talent, Peter Mackey (6'6", 230) of Wellesley was a Bay State All-Star tight end in high school, but may end up at tackle if Harbard's tight end situation firms...
...skipper of the 9,000-hp. oceangoing tug Cavalier and his crew of seven are part of a convoy of tugs and barges making the hazardous trip from the Pacific Northwest to the oilfields around Prudhoe Bay in Alaska. Once a year, for up to six weeks, the Arctic ice pack crumbles away from the Alaskan coast, giving the oil companies their only chance to transport equipment too large to be carried by airplane or truck from Anchorage, more than 600 miles to the south. In 1975, when the entire fleet was trapped in the ice, the scheduled opening...
Embarking from Seattle, the Cavalier plows north through the stomach-turning swells of the Gulf of Alaska and the whipping gales of Bristol Bay. It squirts through the Bering Strait and after two weeks reaches the most perilous leg of the 3,200-mile journey: the 270-mile trip from Wainwright on the western flanks of northern Alaska to Prudhoe Bay. Here the tugs putter along at four to five knots, creeping above shoals that, in places, lie only 5 ft. beneath hulls still weighted down with 100,000 gal. of diesel fuel. Kardonsky, 56, looks up from his charts...
...these floating hulks. The ice is fragile from the summer, and if the tug sails too close, its wake can make the bergs crack or explode. Depending on the density of the floes, Kardonsky will take anywhere from a day to three weeks to sail between Wainwright and Prudhoe Bay...