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...left side, but the puck bounced off of Young’s pads and was picked up by Princeton. In a final attempt to even the score, Martin was pulled with 57 seconds to play. But Harvard struggled to keep control in the Tigers’ zone with the extra skater, and time expired without the Crimson getting a real opportunity. Although Princeton held the advantage in shots in the third period, 6-5, Harvard out-shot the Tigers overall and controlled the first 30 minutes of play. Vaillancourt, who had a team-leading five shots, set up several good...
...Aboard. To accommodate the hordes headed to D.C. for Inauguration Day, Amtrak will add extra trains and cars on its Northeast Corridor route. Maryland and Virginia commuter-train routes are also being called into service: MARC, a Baltimore-to-D.C. commuter line, will provide reservations-only service on Jan. 20, with schedules coordinated with Inaugural activities. VRE, with trains that connect Fredricksburg, Va., and D.C., will maintain its regular schedule but require reservations. (See 10 things to do in Washington...
...cars burned each year are suspected insurance fraud. If that trend, too, is on the rise, then New Year's Eve 2009 may be a veritable bonfire in France, as recession-bled car owners see the country's annual arson event as a chance to make some extra money...
...late evening," he explained to a red-eyed Bertie Wooster in the 1916 short story, Jeeves Takes Charge. Jeeves' restorative isn't too far from an American concoction called the Prairie Oyster, a mixture of tomato juice, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, pepper and a raw egg - to give it that extra bleeegh. While adherents swear by the concoction, there is no scientific reason why something so disgusting would make anyone feel better...
...detected by observations made at the International Earth Rotation Service in Paris. Since then, 24 leap seconds have been added, either on June 30 or Dec. 31; the last one was tacked on in 2005. At that rate, "it will be 5,040 years before we gain an extra hour," Novick says...