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...starting price can escalate to well past $100,000. Almost as famous as the bag is the waiting list the company tries not to let exceed five years. Each bag requires a single, flawless skin, rendering production wholly susceptible to the throes of Mother Nature. If there's a drought in New Zealand, as there was a few years ago, the availability of ostrich decreases drastically. It typically takes six months to two years to find an exotic skin for a bag. After that, the entirely by-hand construction of a Birkin requires 72 hours to two weeks to complete...
...Before the game-winner, the Crimson offense had given up four goals in a 10-minute scoring drought...
...Though some scientists angrily denounced the IPCC report as a hobbled compromise even then, its predictions make frightening reading. The IPCC concludes that global warming has almost certainly triggered changes in the Earth's ecosystem that have already been felt in increased drought, shrinking glaciers and changing seasons, and these effects are expected to intensify. Freshwater stored in glaciers and snow cover will be lost, while rainfall will increasingly come in destructive deluges, reducing the water supply to one-sixth of the humanity - with the teeming masses dependent on the melt water from the Himalayas particularly hard...
...Moreover, since Dominic Moore ’03 tallied 24 goals in the 2002-03 season, no Crimson skater has scored 20 goals, an offensive drought that has begun to plague Harvard’s consistency. For the Crimson to establish itself as a team to be reckoned with in the ECAC, it needs to find a goalscorer that can deliver in the clutch...
...level to see the fourth-ever showdown between the two squads. What they witnessed was a Harvard defense that went the game’s final 35:58 without giving up a score to secure the first ever road win in the young history of the series. The Pioneer drought came in part because the Crmison offense maintained possession for the bulk of the second half.“It was a low-scoring game, but I thought it was a good game both offensively and defensively,” Harvard coach Scott Anderson said. “I think...