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...LAST TIME I SAW Cleveland, her park was worn and gray. The press box in Cleveland Stadium was shrouded in cobwebs. The Indians on the field that season--1985--were on their way to losing 102 games. A solitary fanatic in the last row of the distant bleachers was banging a drum slowly to wake up either the offense or the ghosts of the past. George Vukovich stood where Rocky Colavito once stood. The 5,000 people rattling around the 74,208-seat Temple of Doom looked as if they wanted to wipe the stupid grin off the face...
...some self-serving letters into I Want to Tell You (650,000 printed), points the finger elsewhere. Says Little, Brown ceo Charles E. Hayward: "Of the total dollars generated by this trial, if you stacked up magazines, newspapers, television and radio, my guess is books would come in a distant last." And this, in the end, is the same argument parents have traditionally found so hard to counter: all the other kids are doing...
...which took place on the last weekend in February at Cornell. Princeton sprinted past Harvard and the rest of the field to take first place with a team score of 117. Penn came in a close second with 106 points and Dartmouth finished third with 96. Harvard was a distant fourth with 77.3 points...
Though academia was a more distant fourth-ranked field for men (12.6 percent), it ranked first for women (16.1 percent). While academic careers were the most popular among Radcliffe respondents, proportionally fewer Radcliffe than Harvard graduates were fully tenured professor. (A substantial portion are either adjunct or assistant professors...
...rabbits in Australia and kudzu in the Southern U.S. shows that seemingly innocuous plants and animals can misbehave when taken out of their original environments. And while most experts believe that the danger posed by ancient microbes is small, the idea that they have traveled from a time so distant is still unsettling to many people...