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...Yeah, it was, but that was a long time ago. Now they've got me doing college hockey. It's okay, I guess. I mean, Harvard's an interesting case. National champs one year, snake-bitten hockey team the next...
...snake-bitten," Harvard Coach Bill Cleary said. "When we played five-on-five, we were a great team, but the penalties were so disruptive. The kids played their hearts out. They're conscious of the penalties; they're not looking to get them. I don't know what...
...controlled by antibiotics and struck only 5,000 people nationwide last year, Lyme disease has become as dreaded as the black plague. Two weeks ago, the hysterical overreaction to the tick-borne affliction reached a new peak. Obsessed with fear that he had contracted Lyme disease when he was bitten by ticks on fur-trapping expeditions over the years and then passed it along to his spouse, a 73-year-old man killed his wife and then himself with a twelve-gauge shotgun in their East Detroit home...
...embraced Western materialism in this century, one of the strongest threads in its more than 2,000 years of cultural traditions has always been a deep love of nature. Typical is the story of the monk Ryokan who slept under mosquito netting in the summer not to prevent being bitten by an insect but to avoid squashing one inadvertently while he slept. The Japanese, though, have never been passive conservationists. Consider the bonsai, the tiny trees that are shaped over generations into living pieces of sculpture. The bonsai represent the landscape architect's respect for nature, but also the notion...
Berkenstock and Yardley are not the only couple who chose to ride the Harvard roller coaster together. In spite of the demands of tough classes, the time commitment of extra-curricular activities and the occasional third-party principle, several couples in the senior class were bitten by cupid's arrow early in their Harvard careers and have not recovered since...