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...Harvard women’s golf team showed no signs of rust in its first spring match. The Crimson took on Dartmouth and Brown in the Triangular this weekend at the Cape Cod Country Club, dominating its Ivy opponents en route to a sound victory. Junior Emily Balmert (75-77) and sophomore Claire Sheldon (80-77) placed first and second as individuals, helping to keep the overall match well out of reach. Balmert enjoyed the low score after the first round on Saturday and anchored the Crimson by maintaining her strong play. Brown took second in the tournament, leaving Dartmouth...
...Getting umbrellas off the streets doesn’t mean we just have to throw them away, and critics fearing landfills piled up with mountains of umbrellas should have their concerns eased. Walking on Cape Cod, Thoreau found that his umbrella worked better as a sail to catch tailwinds than as a shield against the rain. There are plenty of good uses the enterprising umbrella owner might put his or her old weapon towards. They can be retrofitted into reflectors for studio photographers, or made into makeshift punch bowls...
...revelations? First, that Princess Diana was thinking about buying a house in the U.S., either in Malibu or Cape Cod. And second, that she was also looking at a place in South Africa. Hardly earth-shattering. But all was not lost - Burrell had brought something back from Cheshire, a small pile of papers and photos he had used to write his two tell-all books. Along with the "secret" letter and a few other letters he had in Florida, these, Burrell said, were the last bits of physical proof of his time with the Princess. After the publication...
...example, North Sea cod is one of the many stocks under heavy pressure from overfishing. Yet because ICES noted a slight rise in the number of young cod in the North Sea, ministers are expected to actually raise the quota. "The end result of higher cod quotas will be a total failure of the management of this species," said WWF's Carol Phua. "Scientists have recently announced a slight improvement of the cod stock, because of the growing number of young cod. But full recovery of the stock needs time and it is not by allowing fishermen to take more...
...Critics warn that the E.U. could follow Canada, whose fishing industry was ravaged in the early 1990s when Atlantic cod stocks were wiped out as a result of overfishing. If that happens, it would be a sad indictment for Europe, and a triumph of national selfishness over conservation...