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...oarswomen continued to increase their lead when MIT's bowman caught a crab and a quick reaction by freshman Sabatino put the eight in the middle of a power ten before MIT recovered. With 500 meters to go, there was open water, and with the opposition keeping a stodgy stroke rate of 29, there was no last-minute comeback...
...Somerset County, Pa., southeast of Pittsburgh, Standard Oil of Indiana has already sunk three dozen natural gas wells. In the Crab Orchard Mountains of Cumberland County, Tenn., Ladd Petroleum has struck oil and gas at depths of up to 4,000 ft., and expects to keep searching for the next five years before the area's potential is firmly established. In Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia, Atlantic Richfield and Gulf are planning to spend up to $26 million over the same period to drill on some 1.2 million leased acres...
...down this year on people who they believe are evading taxes in ways that inspire others. The taxmen are frankly concerned about the proliferation of anti-tax movements. The number of tax protests has nearly doubled in the past two years, and the IRS fears they will spread like crab grass if not swiftly curbed. So far this year the agency has taken legal steps to snuff out tax rebellions in Washington, Connecticut and Michigan...
Greek doctors gave the disease its name (the word cancer means crab) and described cancer of the breast which, in advanced stages, has the appearance of a central lump with lines (or claws) extending from...
...even on the seacoasts. Americans are blessed with a biblical abundance of seafood; some 200 varieties pass through Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market. They range from the eel (Anguilla rostrata), much prized by Mediterranean diners, to squid, abalone, Boston scrod, the sadly underrated pike and San Francisco Dungeness crab. American oysters-notably Lynnhavens, Bluepoints, Chincoteagues and the Pacific Olympias-are as delicious and nutritious as any that Roman emperors had shipped from England packed in snow. (Louis XI ordered his advisers to eat this bivalve regularly as "brain food.") Though it is as expensive as beefsteak today, seafood...