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Colorado-born jeweler Matthew Campbell Laurenza caught the creative bug early on when, inspired by his family's antique collection, he began studying jewelry design. At 17, with no formal training, he created his first major work, a centerpiece of silver dragonflies for his mother. After pursuing a degree in sculpture, Laurenza moved to Thailand to study gemstones and began his eponymous label, M.C.L. Design. On a trip to New York City last year, he met with buyers from Bergdorf Goodman and landed a coveted spot at the luxury retailer. His colorful enamel bangles, earrings and cocktail rings encrusted with...
...holding an 18-10 scoring advantage. - Both teams are shooting the lights out from downtown. Yale = 55% (5 of 9), Harvard = 50% (4 of 8). - Turnovers are KILLING the Crimson. They've already accumulated 15 turnovers, compared to only six assists. Yale has also fallen victim to the TO bug, but to a lesser extent. (11 turnovers, 7 assists) - #4 for Yale, Porter Braswell, has racked up an impressive 4 steals already. He also has 6 points and 2 rebounds...
With an 11-day break between matches, the Harvard women’s tennis team thought it would be rested and well for Friday’s contest against the No. 75 Boston College Eagles (6-1). The Crimson (0-6), however, caught a bug during the layoff and had to make last minute personnel changes. The Eagles took advantage of the makeshift lineup as they earned a 5-2 victory at the Murr Center. “Pretty much everyone playing today had some sort of an illness,” junior Laura Peterzan said...
...shooting bug afflicted all the guards on the team, as junior Drew Housman went 2-of-7 (11 points) and sophomore Dan McGeary shot 2-of-8 for only four points...
...definitely wasn't lucky. What he was, was determined. In 1866, when he was 20, he sailed for the Amazon in search of exotic feathers for his mother's hat business back in London. That was a failure, like everything else he tried, but he caught the Amazon bug, and 10 years later he pulled off the one spectacular success of his life. In defiance of malaria, anacondas, electric eels, freshwater stingrays, Confederate colonists, customs inspectors and Yanomamo tribesmen, he smuggled 70,000 priceless rubber-tree seeds out of Brazil and back to England...