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Harvard was able to regain some composure, andSturdy knocked down a crucial three-pointer with4:11 left to increase the Crimson's lead to 71-62.Harvard, however, was unable to convert its freethrows down the stretch--the team shot a paltry 47percent from the charity stripe for the game--andDubuisson and All-Tournament team honoree JennyNett combined to cut Wofford's deficit to threewith 1:47 left in the game...
During a trip to China, Roberta Sobel, 64, a retired schoolteacher, saw hundreds of people performing Tai Chi in parks and vowed to try it herself. Since then, her senior-center classes in Miami have made her a convert. "I come from a generation that did the fox trot and the waltz, and Tai Chi is like dancing," she says. "It gives me a general sense of well-being. I'm more relaxed, and I have more energy." It has also made her more flexible. "I can bend and pick up something from the bottom shelf at the grocery store...
...good times were not to last. Harvard fought its way back, with victory in its eyes. But the offense could not get the job done. Jones was rebuffed one yard shy of the end zone and Mike Giampaolo failed to convert a 19-yard field goal that, ultimately, would have made the difference. Having made it so close to going up by 14 and then coming away empty-handed, every Harvard fan in the stadium may have had an inkling that trouble was in store...
Harvard began its comeback down 57-49 with 2:54 to play. Captain Paul Fisher drew a foul at the low post on a putback of his own miss, but the center could not convert either free throw attempt...
...velocity, says Guenter Riegler, a NASA senior scientist, a meteoroid as small as a dust particle could blast a hole nearly half an inch across in a solar panel or a layer of insulation. Equally threatening is the intense heat of impact, which would instantly vaporize the meteoroid and convert it to an ionized gas, or plasma, that would shock the spacecraft with an electrostatic charge. "If that charge got into some of your data circuitry," Riegler says, "it could wipe out data...