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...mark at 23.17 in the prelims. Slaight took fifth in the event with a time of 23.56.The final Crimson swimmer to take home a championship was Pangilinan in the 200-yard breaststroke. The Ivy League record holder surpassed the NCAA “B” cutoff with a time of 2:14.69 en route to her fourth-consecutive Ivy League crown.“When I touched the wall, that was one of the most emotional moments of my career,” Pangilinan said. “It was a great way to go out, I couldn?...
Today it's the source nations that have the whip hand. Nearly all of them have so-called cultural-property laws that lay claim to any ancient objects found in the ground on their territory after a particular year--the cutoff year varies from one nation to the next--and make it a crime to export such material without a permit. A 1970 UNESCO convention has given those laws force in the courts of other nations, like the U.S., that have accepted it. Cultural-property claims by foreign nations are also enforceable in the U.S. under the ordinary law governing...
...that characterized the '60s and early '70s inevitably bred distaste for further social change. "Endless questioning of all aspects of life from food, dress, dropping out, child rearing and commune living led to mere exhaustion," he says. "There simply was no energy left. People found it an isolating and cutoff way to live." Yankelovich too thinks the turn away from sexual adventuring is a byproduct of other change. It is, he says, "only one part of a larger phenomenon of society going through a sober, responsible phase...
...standards - where some nine million children are overweight - the children included in the Danish paper would have barely made the cutoff for "overweight." Merely being chubby it seems - let alone obese - can be a serious health risk. "Our study shows that even a few excess pounds or kilograms of weight can damage future health," Baker says...
...Other universities have a GPA cutoff, but we don’t do it that way,” Coakley said...