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There were a couple of strange things about the Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 that taxied out along one of London Heathrow's two main runways and took off into the bright sky late Sunday morning. First, there were only five people on board, while more than 100 watched intently from a nearby hangar. Second, the plane was the first commercial jet ever to fly on biofuel, a fuel produced from plant matter instead of petroleum or other fossil fuels. "This is the first stage on a journey towards renewable fuel," Virgin founder Richard Branson told reporters in the hangar shortly...
...within four. Then, Harris came up big again, immediately intercepting Princeton’s long-pass attempt to break the Harvard full-court press with 1:20 to play. Housman then drove the lane and missed a short jumper, but Harris was there yet again to tip the offensive board to a wide open freshman Kyle Fitzgerald, who was able to lay it in. Now a two-point game, Fitzgerald proved his worth on the defensive end, blocking the Tigers’ Kyle Koncz on an attempted lay-in, giving Harvard the ball and the chance to tie with...
...Secretary of the Administrative Board Jay L. Ellison has recommended that those affected file a police report with Harvard University Police Department in order to expedite administrative response...
Roger W. Ferguson Jr. ’73, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, has been selected as the president of the University’s Board of Overseers, Harvard’s second-highest governing body, for the 2008-2009 school year, school officials announced last week. Ferguson, who will serve as president in the final year of his six-year term as an overseer, will succeed Frances D. Fergusson ’66 after Commencement in June. William F. Lee ’72, the outgoing vice chair of the board’s executive committee...
...said. “Brad and Evan were just being physical down there, playing as well as I’ve ever seen them play.”“Princeton isn’t really a big team so we thought we could crash the boards effectively,” Unger said.And crash the boards they did. The Harvard big men dominated play on the inside, as the team put in 17 second-chance points (Princeton had six) and held the advantage on points scored in the paint (46 to 36). The duo combined to shoot...