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...such penalty proved costly when Harvard freshman Kevin Du notched his third goal of the season at 6:04. The center’s power-play tally, a deflection from just outside the crease, broke the Crimson’s two-game scoring drought with the man advantage...
...Bulldogs were aided by a tapered workout schedule designed to give their squad the best chance possible to upset Harvard, as were the Tigers. Senior Kate Nadeau broke the squad’s first-place drought six events in with a solid come-from-behind victory in the 200-yard butterfly. Biding her time, Nadeau sat in third when she hit the midway mark before beginning to make her move...
Usually when a President starts to talk about the year 2020, it means he's going to deliver a dreary speech calling for the reform of entitlements like Medicare and Social Security, programs scheduled to go broke about then. But George W. Bush is trying to make the politics of the future fun again. He not only announced a new mission to the moon and Mars, but also sounded as if he would be doing it for the cost of a trip to the corner store...
...atmosphere and repeat the feat within two weeks--the qualifications required to win the $10 million X Prize created by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis to encourage private spaceflight. Leading that race is legendary aerospace engineer Burt Rutan, who is gearing up for another test after his rocket plane broke the sound barrier for the first time last December. Backing Rutan--reportedly with $30 million--is Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen...
Copper is trading above $1 a pound for the first time in more than six years. Gold broke $420 an ounce. Nickel is at a 14-year high. The Reuters/CRB commodity index rose 9% in 2003, to its highest level since 1996. Do soaring prices for raw materials mean inflation for finished goods, as in the '70s and '80s? "Almost certainly not," Ben Bernanke, a Federal Reserve Board governor, said recently. Sure, China's infrastructure and consumer-spending boom have bolstered demand for commodities. China purchased some 20% of the world's copper last year, compared with...