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...time Charles R. Melvoin ’10 comes to Harvard in the fall, he will have eaten dog in Vietnam, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, ridden a camel in India and an ostrich in New Zealand, and gone shark-cage diving in South Africa. Melvoin has already cruised through 19 countries, with three more to go before coming back to the States. But those not lucky enough to take such a jet-set gap year can get in on the fun vicariously through www.whereischarlie.com, a professional-looking website that boasts hundreds of blog posts and photo galleries tracking...
...will be hard to explain away the "fishapod," as Shubin and his team nicknamed their find. Unlike a true fish, it had a broad skull, a flexible neck, and eyes mounted on the top of its head like a crocodile. It also had a big, interlocking rib cage, suggesting that it had lungs and did at least part of its breathing through them, as well as a trunk strong enough to support itself in the shallows or on land. And most startling of all, when technicians dissected its pectoral fins, they found the beginnings of a tetrapod hand, complete with...
...Their offense came to play and their defense obviously did too, because they were sliding real fast and they were in our face every time we turned around,” junior Greg Cohen said. “So it was just real tough to get to the cage.” And when the offense could not hold onto the ball, it was up to the defense to either get it back—or hold up for a full 60 minutes. Even in the second quarter it was clear the defense was not up to the task...
...this day, as L?pez speaks, a supporter carries onto the stage a cage holding two large, squawking chachalaca birds. They wear the names of L?pez's two major opponents and symbolize for his campaign the anti-L?pez, anti-leftist hysteria he says they're trying to create. "We're going to rescue our rural countryside, which is being crushed by [free trade with the U.S.], and we're going to generate wealth again in Mexico!" he shouts. Farmers like Manuel Garcia, 48, who says he has five brothers working illegally in the U.S., roar in approval. "I'm with AMLO...
...times he picked up a pencil, he used it to stab another inmate in the hand. He felt that he had to prove himself, he says, after witnessing weaker kids being assaulted at the facility. The attack earned him a stint in isolation in Cottage 13--"the cage"--and that, says Ryan, is where he got religion about schooling...