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ALBANY, N.Y.—After dozens of pictures had been taken of smiles so broad they might snap, and after the Whitelaw Trophy had been lifted, and after the brand-new ECAC tournament champion hats had been distributed, all that remained was a pile of Crimson gloves and helmets and sticks around the crease of Harvard’s goal.That was where the Crimson congregated when the final seconds evaporated in Saturday’s 6-2 victory over Cornell in the ECAC Tournament final. The skaters congratulated senior netminder John Daigneau—who was named the Most...
...more often than not, they’re screaming for a good reason: the men’s heavyweights have been perfect in dual competition for three years, and the lightweights lost just once last year. The NCAA basketball champion wins six consecutive games to take home a title; the Harvard heavyweights have won 24 straight races...
...stroke. The problem, as physicians quickly found out, was that body mass includes not just excess body fat but muscle as well. So fit people with dense muscle mass would consistently register as overweight and unhealthy. That led Dr. Jean-Pierre Despres, of Laval University in Quebec, to champion another measure for metabolic health: waist circumference. In a series of recent studies, researchers found that a larger waist circumference is a good indicator for metabolic syndrome, a constellation of physiologic changes that can lead to diabetes and heart disease. "I call it a vital sign," Despres says of the simple...
...closingin onNASCAR driving champion Tony Stewart on the backstretch at Talladega Superspeedway. The speedometer, if you had one (stock cars don't--what's the point?), would be reading north of 150 m.p.h., but you're still south of Tony. And you need to pass him for the checkered flag, the Nextel Cup points and the adulation of the 150,000 or so NASCAR nuts who regularly show up every weekend. As you get closer to Stewart's rear bumper, a couple of things start to happen, not all of them good. First, Tony gets ticked...
Brian W. Casey, who recently arrived from Brown University, will set the current for faculty hiring as associate dean for academic affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Casey, who is a swim champion, fills the vacancy left by Vincent J. Tompkins, who departed for Brown in the fall. “Brian Casey has a rich expertise in academic planning, faculty development, and the range of policies that support faculty life,” Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby wrote in an e-mail yesterday. Kirby has said he hopes to expand the Faculty, currently...