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...free position shot with less than a second left in the period, bringing the score to 9-4 at the halftime whistle. Despite the late setback in the first half, Harvard continued to play at a solid pace to kick off the second frame. While the Quakers did claim the first goal only two minutes into the second half, Harvard took charge of the game and closed the gap to just three goals within ten minutes. Flood, Flynn, and Martin each tallied an unassisted goal in the Crimson’s last run, keeping Penn scoreless for ten minutes...
...List. Bump up to a better airline lifestyle on Southwest: the airline's Rapid Rewards frequent flyer program will grant you "A-List" status if you fly five round-trips before June 15. A-Listers get the coveted "A" boarding pass, which allows you to board early and claim your preferred seat, plus access to priority Fly By airport security lanes. A-List status is valid through December...
...China. "We are the world's number one," says Zheng Xiaoting, director and keeper of the Tianyu (which means "universe" in Chinese) Natural History Museum's collection of thousands of dinosaur fossils. Though no official records of the collection's number exist, several Chinese paleontologists echo Zheng's claim that Tianyu houses the world's largest collection of dinosaur fossils. "In 10 years' time," says Zheng, who runs the largest business in town, a lucrative state-owned gold mine, which owns the museum, "Tianyu will really put our small town on the world...
...time equally hesitant prosecutors and investigating magistrates get them, there usually isn't enough in the dossier for a case to be tried," Diaz-Jogeix says. "There is no independent alternative to challenge rulings that the abuse accusations are unfounded. That allows police and their superiors to claim the role of victim, and file suit for 'outrage' against the people whose rights were abused by police violence in the first place...
...Thursday night, after the G-20 summit ended, Obama took so many questions from the foreign press, including British, Indian and Chinese reporters, that a group of them applauded when he left the stage. Two American reporters asked Obama for his response to the claim by Brown that the "Washington consensus is over." Obama all but agreed with Brown, noting that the phrase had its roots in a significant set of economic policies that had shown itself to be imperfect. He went on to talk about the benefits of increasing economic competition with the U.S. "That's not a loss...