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Harvard (3-2-0) beat UMass (2-4-0) 3-1 yesterday and Hartford (2-4-1) 4-2 in a downpour on Friday to win its first ever UMass Classic championship. Junior midfielder Anthony Tornaritis was named the tournament’s MVP after picking up two goals and one assist, giving him three goals for the season. Sophomore forward Matt Hoff, junior midfielder Brian Charnock and senior defenders Sam Wiggin and Jason Anderson also garnered all-tournament team selections...
...Droughts and floods account for more than half of the world's total deaths from disasters, according to the United Nations. But unlike many other catastrophes, most water crises are man-made. Nature may bring the occasional monsoon downpour or dry spell, but environmentalists agree that global warming, dams, deforestation and slash-and-burn farming exponentially exacerbate these seasonal weather patterns. Inept and corrupt water management also contributes to the problem, allowing plentiful water to run off to the seas or leaving it to lie in floods on the land, while a few hours away, crops wither in parched fields...
...admit it, but Nadarajah Shan-Mugam's vanity saved his life. The 49-year-old Malaysian handyman was riding his motorbike to work in Kuala Lumpur one morning last year when an irritating drizzle suddenly billowed into a blinding tropical downpour. Spotting a flyover a few hundred meters ahead on the highway, Raja raced for shelter. A dozen fellow bikers were there already. As three lanes of rush-hour traffic continued to roar past, more bikers squeezed in, huddling together and turning their backs to the windblown rain and the heavy spray from passing vehicles. Raja lit a cigarette, then...
...even though no one had gone back to sleep since the early morning downpour, and even though my socks were still soaking wet, and even though all we had left was bagels to get us through another two ferry rides, three train rides, and a bus ride back—I had to admit that this student was right...
During a cold, 10-minute downpour on an otherwise sunny day, then sophomore Ladd Fritz scored the game’s only goal in the 23rd minute...