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...season on the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA) carnival circuit. While Harvard may be falling victim to a small roster and some untimely injuries, there were, nonetheless, some bright spots for the Crimson. Both of Dartmouth’s courses, the Skiway and Oak Hill, benefited from warm weather earlier in the week, followed by freezing temperatures the night before the contests, making the snow hard and icy leading into the competitions. The men’s alpine squad led the way, with a great individual performance by junior alpine captain Chris Kinner in the Giant Slalom event...
...there's little reason to worry. NASA told TIME on Sunday that the events seen and heard earlier in the day bore the hallmarks of a natural incident; debris from a satellite collision is generally too small to be seen. The satellites involved in last week's cosmic crack-up were relatively small machines. The Russian ship weighed 1,235 lbs.; the American ship was about a ton. Once that mass is broken up into smaller pieces, the atmosphere ought to do a pretty good job of incinerating it. Skylab did shower the Australian outback with wreckage during its reentry...
...Gregg, who does not expect to seek re-election in 2010, first made his concerns clear to Obama earlier this week. They met Wednesday at the White House, just a day after Gregg had conspicuously chosen not to vote at all on the Senate's stimulus plan. The news was kept secret until Thursday. In a briefing to reporters at the White House, Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, said the news had come as a blow. "My first thought was, It's better we discovered it now than later," he said, according to the Wall Street Journal...
...experts that mainland health and veterinary authorities could be missing - or even concealing - the spread of the disease through poultry and wild birds. Hong Kong, where the first human cases of H5N1 infection were found in 1997, reported finding a dozen birds with the deadly strain of the virus earlier this year - a strong indication that the virus is very likely present in adjacent Guangdong province. But so far, Guangdong has reported no bird cases. Equally unusual is that after such a busy month of infections in China, reports of human cases have gone silent. "It's a surprise...
...January at a meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Philadelphia, have caused a stir in archaeological circles, bringing to light proof of deeds usually encountered just in classical texts. Conducting a CSI-style cold-case forensic analysis of the site, James pieced together clues from records of earlier excavations at the Roman city of Dura-Europos, whose ruins are in modern Syria. An army of Persians had sacked the city and abandoned it, deporting its captive population deep into Persian territory. Dura-Europos became a ghost town, engulfed in sand until joint French-American teams...