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Harvard’s Frozen Four opponents are the cream of the crop and each has strengths and weaknesses the Crimson will need to scout for its upcoming games...
Both on and off the diamond, this talented crop of first-year players sticks together, and has formed an extremely tight-knit group. If Harvard hopes to return to the top of the Ivy League this season, then it will rely heavily on the successful foundation the freshmen have begun to build—not only for on-field results, but to establish the cohesive atmosphere that breeds winning...
...Growing Pains The British government gave the go-ahead for the commercial farming of genetically modified maize, the first biotech crop to be grown in the U.K. Anti-GM activists are threatening to rip the crops from the ground...
This coming spring looks to be unusually entertaining due to the long-awaited blossoming of a crop of big-name indies. The March 19th release Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is tops on my list; I’ve watched that trailer a dozen times over and it still discombobulates me whenever I see Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet bathing in a kitchen sink (why is that sink so big?) or Mark Ruffalo and Kirsten Dunst dancing in their underwear (why is Kirsten Dunst not more often dancing in her underwear?). Throw in Charlie Kaufman, the most reliable screenwriter...
...warlords' land grabs have been sustained by the return of Afghanistan's most lucrative cash crop: opium. Outlawed by the Taliban in 2000, opium-poppy cultivation has spread from eight provinces in 1994 to 28 today. U.N. experts expect this year's crop to yield 3,600 tons of opium--75% of the world's heroin. According to the U.N., the combined income of poppy farmers and opium smugglers last year was $2.32 billion--equal to half of Afghanistan's official GDP. A Western anti-narcotics expert in Kabul estimates that 60% of the country's regional warlords are profiting...