Word: bear
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...easy to slip into feeling that losses mean you’re not making progress,” junior Laura Peterzan said after Harvard’s loss to No. 16 William and Mary. “It’s important to bear in mind we are playing incredibly strong teams. This is all making us stronger.” Against No. 1 Northwestern, the Crimson fell 6-1 after junior Beier Ko earned the only point with a straight set victory over the No. 6 singles player in the nation. Ko, who went 10-8 to lead Harvard...
There is no doubt, at least, that Kerry gave Clinton a look. Bob Shrum, Kerry's all-around strategist in that cycle, wrote about a brief consideration of Clinton in his book but said later that the Kerry team discarded the idea because her negatives were too high to bear...
...very likely to find a penguin on Mars - or a seal or a puffin or a polar bear either. But that doesn't mean there aren't interesting things going on in the planet's polar regions. Life requires water, after all, and water - at least in the form of ice - is found in abundance at the poles. That's why the Mars Phoenix lander is en route to pay a call there, with a first ever touchdown in the Martian Arctic set for this Sunday...
...mega-projects across Alberta's oil sands rival some of humankind's greatest engineering achievements, including the pyramids of Giza and the Great Wall of China. After thousands of years, those ancient projects still bear witness to history. Conservative estimates predict the tar sands will give out in just 70 years. Their legacy to Canada is yet to be written, but it may be a great deal bigger than expectations. With new deposits still being found and technologies improving, the sands could produce for a couple of hundred years more. Forget Venezuela. Canada may become the new Saudi Arabia...
...When commoner Letizia Ortiz married Prince Felipe in May 2004, the former journalist not only catapulted herself into the glossy pages of Spain's hungry gossip magazines, but took her unsuspecting family members with her. None of them, not Letizia's teddy bear of a divorced-but-dating father, nor her firebrand of a grandmother, nor even her tragic youngest sister Erika, who killed herself in February 2007, got as much attention as Telma. Young, pretty, apparently good-hearted (she works for the Red Cross) and best of all unattached, Telma made perfect fodder for what the Spanish call...