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...will next be in action Jan. 24 at home against Brown.“I think it’s really encouraging that everyone swam so well when they’re under so much stress academically,” Clarke said. “When we have our bigger meets and we can focus more directly on swimming, I think we’ll have some pretty impressive swims.”—Staff writer Kate Leist can be reached at kleist@fas.harvard.edu...
...HDTVs are getting thinner and bigger. While that's not exactly news, it was hard not to be impressed by the gleaming, wafer-thin lineups from Sony, Samsung, Sharp and LG, which have managed to shrink their screens down to half an inch in depth while offering screen sizes in the 100-in.-plus range. OLED TVs, using an amazing new display technology that draws little power but offers a huge array of colors, are now hovering around 21 in., which means that competitive sizes at competitive prices with plasma and LCDs ought to be available in another year...
...galaxy being larger than we thought is not necessarily the best news. According to the researchers, a bigger Milky Way means that we could be crashing violently into the Andromeda galaxy sooner than we believed—though that’s still billions of years from...
Nature can only provide so much. Deer breeders deliver bigger animals, prized by hunters, for luxurious game reserves (which then charge several thousands of dollars for a "hunting package"). Texas alone has 1,100 licensed breeders with approximately 87,000 deer and a total economic impact of $652 million, according to a 2007 Texas A&M study. Breeders often sell deer at livestock auctions, where the price for a good buck can reach five figures (occasionally a champion buck, just like a prize bull, can sell for half a million dollars). Deer-breeding is the fastest-growing industry in rural...
...high prices have prompted some reserves to reject Texas-bred deer. And so deer are smuggled in from northern states like Minnesota, where the stock is bigger and smugglers offer cut-rate prices. This way, smugglers skirt Texas laws that have closed the borders to non-Texas-bred deer. It's not chauvinism at work. There is a danger that smuggled deer can carry diseases like chronic wasting disease - which is similar to mad cow disease - and bovine tuberculosis. The wasting disease has been reported in deer, moose and elk in 11 states and two Canadian provinces. Wisconsin has spent...