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...yards on 10-of-13 passing, before succumbing to injury yet again, sidelined with a knee ligament strain he incurred on a scramble play. That pushed control of the pigskin farther down the depth chart, as sophomore Jeff Witt iced the win over the Crusaders and directed a crucial road win at Brown the following week.Pizzotti gamely returned sooner than expected—initial estimates had him out for roughly four weeks—to reclaim control of the offense for a road tilt at Lehigh, and kept Harvard undefeated, bringing the squad to Princeton last weekend with an unblemished...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Back is Back: O’Hagan Starts Again | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

...example, is increasingly focused on modernizing its agribusiness and on encouraging farmers to grow more fruits and vegetables instead of staples like wheat and rice. Improved agricultural output in Asia and Latin America has also meant growing demand for tractors, fertilizers and speciality seeds. Drip-irrigation equipment is particularly crucial to farms in China and India, which must use scarce water supplies more efficiently. Post-harvest, the processing and packaging sectors present opportunities in areas such as food-processing machinery, freezer and cold-storage facilities, and packaging and preservation technologies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better Lives, Fuller Carts | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

...Look a little closer, however, and it becomes evident why Dandong (pop. 2.4 million) is anything but a normal Chinese city--and why it's a crucial front in the world's struggle to contain a nuclear North Korea. A few hundred yards across the river lie the dilapidated low-rise buildings of the North Korean city of Sinuiju, many of which seem deserted, their window frames empty of glass, their doors agape. A few peasants dressed in blue jackets and trousers can be seen laboring in the fields in front of the town, but otherwise an eerie stillness pervades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Beijing is so Reluctant to Cut off Trade with North Korea | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

This time around, the protesters say--and this is a crucial complaint in a world in which people grow up excluded from many conversations--that she is a poor communicator. By that they mean several things. Some say she makes top-down decisions. Others say she lacks vision for a job that isn't just a university presidency but almost a secretary-generalship of the deaf world. "It's like in Islam, people go to their Mecca for a holy religious cleansing," Lawrence Fleischer, dean of deaf studies at California State University, Northridge, says through an interpreter. "In our world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Silence Isn't Golden | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

...might not have happened.An unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on safety Danny Tanner with less than five minutes to play in the game, after a chest-pound that followed a broken pass, led to Princeton’s deciding touchdown. The jury was still out on whether it was, at that crucial juncture of the game, the right call by the referees.“We got called on a penalty the same in the first half, so I credit the officials with calling the game equal,” Hughes said.Murphy was less convinced.“It just didn?...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SIDEBAR: Dual Losses Bookend Streak | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

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