Word: catches
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Judd Garrett leads all Tiger receivers with 23 catches while brother John is close behind with 19. Split end Jeff Baker is tops on the team with an 18.7 yards-per-catch average. Like Harvard, Princeton likes to pass to everyone on the field. Last week against Lehigh, Judd caught eight passes down the stretch as the Tigers rallied to win by a point...
...play games. Women live them. Buy that? Then catch this, from David Mamet. When the Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, he cares less about how you conducted yourself than whether you won or lost. The Guy's into irony. And cruel surprise endings. What's the point of running the only game in town if you can't have your little jokes...
...could be daunting. Says National Center for Atmospheric Research's Francis Bretherton: "Suppose it's August in New York City. The temperature is 95 degrees; the humidity is 95%. The heat wave started on July 4 and will continue through Labor Day." While warmer temperatures might boost the fish catch in Alaska and lumber harvests in the Pacific Northwest, he says, the Great Plains could become a dust bowl; people would move north in search of food and jobs, and Canada might rival the Soviet Union as the world's most powerful nation. Bretherton admits that his scenario is speculative...
...five years of on-and-off negotiations, is a good start on ozone. It calls on most signatory countries to reduce production and consumption of CFCs by 50% by 1999. Developing nations, however, will be allowed to increase their use of the chemicals for a decade so they can catch up in basic technologies like refrigeration. The net effect, insist the treaty's advocates, will be a 35% reduction in total CFCs by the turn of the century...
...supercomputers, biotechnology, lasers, aerospace and artificial intelligence. At MITI's Electrotechnical Laboratory in Tsukuba Science City, 37 miles northeast of | Tokyo, scientists are building exotic robots that, among other uses, have proved handy for entertaining foreign guests. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, for one, enjoyed a game of catch with the lab's artificial hand...