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...billion in disaster damages just since 1989. Even in an off year like 1991 -- the Oakland fire storm, a deep freeze, a drought -- the catastrophe tab came to $3 billion. Enter this, the first setback of 1995, into the ledger then, and it looks like a drop in the bucket, the past being prologue...
...what they're eating: those orders of fettuccine Alfredo that the Center for Science in the Public Interest calls "a heart attack on a plate," or those tubs of greasy movie-theater popcorn, which pack four days' worth of fat into a container nearly as big as a fire bucket, or those servings of extra-rich Haagen-Dazs Triple Brownie Overload, each of which contains 44 grams of fat -- the artery clogging equivalent of half a stick of butter...
...game was nevertheless close throughout, and Harvard took a 61-58 lead with 5:28 left on forward Kyle Snowden's bucket. Nevertheless, the Cadets were able to pull away from the Crimson with 45 points from its Army backcourt...
...with less than six minutes to go in the game, it was Snowden's bucket that put the Crimson ahead--temporarily...
Fortunately, one game is only a drop in the season's bucket. There's plenty of time and many other teams between now and the true pressure-chambers of February and March...