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Despite sleet and freezing drizzle, some 10,000 spectators watched at Griffin's Wharf while history buffs crept aboard the 97-ft. brigantine Beaver II, a replica of one of the three ships sacked in 1773. Like the 18th century patriots, the raiders masqueraded as Indians...
...voracious demand for oil increasingly outstripped new sources of supply in recent years, an energy crisis crept up on the world with fateful inevitability. Yet, despite spreading signs of scarcity, most government leaders in the U.S., Europe and Japan paid little heed to calls from oilmen for urgent measures to expand energy resources and curb waste. Instead, they chose to believe that there was time to formulate some painless strategy to avert a genuine global emergency...
Rejected for publication by the U.S. journal Science before Nature printed it, Boyle's paper has already stirred up a new scientific row. Meadows, refusing to change his apocalyptic vision, vigorously denies that any typographical errors crept into the published results. He adds: "Every single conclusion that we reported has no relationship to the error purported by Boyle." But Boyle points out that his computer runs all check out in other respects with the projections in the book-a good indication, he feels, that the program he used was the same as the one on which the book...
...early as the three mile post, the race had been decided, since Harvard had only two men in the top eight. Apparently not accustomed to the fast pace, the harriers fell behind Penn and Columbia. Even past that point, a couple of Columbia runners crept ahead so that the Crimson was left with only a first and a tenth...
...disappointment of both girls was touched with the familiar cynicism that has crept increasingly into the language of youth. They would come back to the next concert, and I wouldn't. But why would they be back, to be overcharged and misused and ripped off again...