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...moms who take up their kids' sports with the right attitude, the rewards can be long lasting. Gail Silberstein, an attorney in Newton, Mass., started rowing when her daughters did in eighth and ninth grades. Now the girls are off at college, but many a dawn finds their 50-year-old mother sculling down the Charles, gliding past leafy shores busy with wildlife. "I never would have found this," she says, "if my kids hadn't shown...
...creative free-for-all, when Deconstruction, Expressionism and a half a dozen other unorthodoxies reign. But as it turns out, Modernism never actually died. What it did was evolve--sometimes into something really interesting. To see what that means right now just stand at the corner of Eighth Avenue and 57th Street in New York City and run your eyes up and down the shimmying silhouette of the Hearst Tower, a new office building by the British architect Norman Foster. What you'll be looking at may be the most gratifying specimen of Modernist invention since Foster's "gherkin...
...best we’ve ever done in proportion to the number of contestants,” Robert Gogan, supervisor of waste management and spearhead of the Recyclemania campaign here, said of the “Per Capita Classic” results, comparing last year’s eighth place out of 48 colleges to this year’s seventh out of 87. “We were pleased to see that we beat Yale, and quite convincingly,” he said. The Bulldogs placed a distant 38th in that category. The only other Ivy League school...
...throwing in front of you. It gives the hitters a different look each time so it’s pretty effective for us.” The Terriers added to their margin with a single run in the seventh off Mike Dukovich, but Harvard responded in the eighth with a run-scoring single off the bat of designated hitter Matt Brunnig to trim the NU lead back to three. Wilson was gunned down at home to end the threat, sliding into the wallow around the plate after a shallow single by eventual winning pitcher Taylor Meehan (1-1). In fact...
...sudden screams of pain mentioned earlier, there are countless other obstacles to overcome in trying to stay asleep on a bus. Therefore, piecing together a good night’s sleep over the course of the ride and the following day is a tricky task. And since roughly an eighth of the games played throughout the season fall on the day after a long bus ride, staying well rested is essential. Still, perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the marathon bus trips is the way they are inadvertently able to promote camaraderie. At some point the iPod batteries...