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...Kyodo News service that they broke the windows of the bus with a hammer and then sang the 1961 hit Ue o Muite Arukou (known abroad as the Sukiyaki song) to muster courage. At one point, the water rose to stomach level. (All were safely rescued by helicopter and boat on Thursday morning.) Also stranded were 167 people aboard the Kaiwo Maru, a sail-powered merchant-marine training ship that ran aground in the waters off Toyama, 255 km northwest of Tokyo. Awaiting rescue, some of the midshipmen dangled dramatically from the masts of the vessel...
Otherwise it was business as usual yesterday for Harvard. Despite losing six first varsity rowers from last year’s national championship boat and six more from the junior varsity, the Crimson dominated the competition in the Championship Four race. Harvard led early in the race, but its pace was overtaken in the final half mile by that of USRowing—manned by rowers from this year’s Olympics—which defeated the Crimson by 0.2 seconds. Nobody else—not even the non-collegiate competition—came close...
...Crimson boat (12:12) held an advantage throughout the first half of the race, leading the USRowing crew by four seconds at the race’s first marker. And though Harvard eventually settled for second place, the closest collegiate boat—Wisconsin—crossed the line more than 23 seconds after the Crimson in a distant fifth. Princeton finished sixth with a time...
...What's startling is the sheer variety of workmanship, from the spiral stone carvings of the chambered mounds of County Meath in Ireland, to the huge mortice - and - tenoned pedestals of the island of Menorca. The Scandinavians stood their stones in boat formation; the Portuguese shaped them like eggs. What they had in common is that tribal leaders put them there to prove they'd picked the right spot, says Cope. "They mythologized it for being flood - free, fertile and safe. That's a universal response." Archaeologists might well pick holes in his arguments; they lent an indulgent...
...second-place finish at that 2003 edition of the CRASH-B’s and his top-10 finish last year are but the smallest of samples from his lengthy resume. From his time rowing with the first boat of the virtually undefeated heavyweights of the Class of 2004, he also boasts first-place triumphs at Eastern Sprints, the Harvard-Yale Regatta and England’s Henley Royal Regatta in addition to a national championship...