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...lead to a complete lack of fresh meat. They will spend their senior year morosely re-reading their high school yearbooks and listening to the 2012 equivalent of Evanescence while sitting in the dark with the shades drawn. They will wonder why Harvard administrators thought it was OK to convert their suite’s bathroom into a double. They will grin and bear the pain of using the floor as a desk, since the College will have sold off their dorm furniture to pay for bigger touch-screens in the dining halls. And they’ll smell terrible...
...goalkeeping on both ends resulted in a scoreless opening period. The floodgates were opened when both teams managed to capitalize on power-play opportunities in the second period. Senior forward Dave Watters’ goal at 3:35 unleashed a barrage of scoring from both sides. After failing to convert on two power-play opportunities in the first period, the Crimson made sure to make the most of the man-advantage. One minute into its first power-play opportunity of the period, Watters deflected junior defenseman Brian McCafferty’s slapshot past Big Red goaltender Ben Scrivens to give...
Housing was so tight that year that Winthrop House had to convert its senior common room and guest suite into undergraduate housing, while Dunster House had to convert tutors’ offices into sophomore suites...
...life, he's never felt afraid while racing cars. Pre-season testing without traction control, however, whitened his knuckles a little. "It does make it a little more tense on corner entry," he said after a session in Jerez, Spain. But after victory in Melbourne, Hamilton was a convert: "This is real racing," he said. "It is how it should...
...growers here have a greener story to tell than do any other biofuel producers. They provide 45% of Brazil's fuel (all cars in the country are able to run on ethanol) on only 1% of its arable land. They've reduced fertilizer use while increasing yields, and they convert leftover biomass into electricity. Marcos Jank, the head of their trade group, urges me not to lump biofuels together: "Grain is good for bread, not for cars. But sugar is different." Jank expects production to double by 2015 with little effect on the Amazon. "You'll see the expansion...