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...tiebreaker, was defeated by George Carpeni (6-2, 7-6(4)).No. 5 Manghan replied with a win through a match tiebreaker, 4-6, 7-6(3), (10-5), but it was too little, too late for an outclassed Harvard.“We fought hard, they played better,” Clayton said. “It could hardly be more simple.”—Staff writer Allen J. Padua can be reached at ajpadua@fas.harvard.edu...
...second varsity eight was able to give the Tigers a run for their money, as both crews managed to leave Cornell and Bucknell in their wake and entered the last 500 meters of the race even with one another. That was when Princeton’s speed got the better of Radcliffe, and the Tigers, finishing at 7:32.2, defeated the Black and White by 2.9 seconds.“They’re known for fast starts in the race, so really our goal for the past week was working on trying to stay with them in the first...
...outskirts. The city has, however, sent out of fleets of water trucks, and Mayor Marcelo Ebrard - who built urban beaches and a winter ice rink for the poor - is personally handing out free bottled water. Aguirre says the long-term solution involves teaching people to ration their water much better. "We need to educate people from when they are children that water is valuable and needs to be used wisely," he says...
...over each other. Piet Klop, an investigator at the Washington-based environmental think tank World Resources Institute, says that people will not learn to ration water unless it hits their pockets. "We need to understand that it is a more valuable commodity than oil and prices must reflect that better," Klop says. "Cheap subsidized water is not helping people. It is giving them a bad service." However, radically hiking the prices of any basic commodity would be a tough sell for any politician, especially in a turbulent democracy such as Mexico...
...livestock of roughly 485 million (including sheep and goats) contributes more to global warming than the vehicles the animals obstruct. With new research suggesting that methane emission by Indian livestock is higher than previously estimated, scientists are furiously working at designing diets to help bovines and other ruminants eat better, stay more energetic and secrete smaller amounts of the offensive gas. (See pictures of India's largest ruminant: the Asian elephant...