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...years.”Iona won the men’s team event by taking the third, fourth, and fifth spots on the way to scoring just 37 points. Providence finished second, paced by individual winner Max Smith, who finished in 29:58.75 and was the only runner to crack the 30-minute mark.On the women’s side, Richardson led the team by finishing 22nd in 21:25.45, the second-fastest time by a freshman in the race. Classmate Jamie Olson finished 35th in 21:44.15, and fellow rookie Eliza Ives clocked in at 22:01.00, 51st overall...
...Cambridge Police Department says it is about to crack down on local stores that sell alcohol to minors, with officers using youths as decoys to check whether cashiers ask for identification...
...Brolin’s hometown. Jones follows the trail of bodies just a step behind Bardem, hoping to protect Brolin from the unstoppable evil. Jones provides a psychological grounding point, a man who has seen more years of bloodshed than any should, and is powerless to do anything but crack hollow jokes in the face of the tide that threatens to swallow him. Like any McCarthy novel, in the battle between good and evil, evil always has a leg up. With a pressurized cattle gun used to punch out equal parts of deadbolts and human gray matter, Bardem?...
...social issues like abortion - not melting polar ice caps. And there's good reason for that. A recent poll by the Kaiser Foundation asked Americans what two issues they most wanted the presidential candidates to talk about. Among Democrats, Republicans and Independents, climate change or the environment failed to crack the top seven choices. (For the record, Iraq and health care were number one and number two across the board...
Humankind doesn't always get a second crack at answering a crisis, but perhaps this fresh encounter with $100 oil amounts to a global do-over. Most of the recommendations in a recent call to arms issued by the National Petroleum Council simply restate what we've known we should have been doing for almost 30 years--improve efficiency and conservation, develop clean and renewable sources of energy, make energy security a central element of national policy and global diplomacy...