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...much for going gently into that good night. More than two years after announcing his retirement in a tearful press conference that left an entire state of Cheeseheads in mourning, storied quarterback Brett Favre shared the field with the Green Bay Packers again. Only problem: he played for their divisional rival, the Minnesota Vikings, in what was breathlessly touted as a revenge match against the team that thought the 39-year-old signal caller was washed up. Favre proved his critics and the Packers wrong, leading the Vikings to a 30-23 victory, throwing three touchdowns in the process...
...sport of golf, home field advantage goes a long...
...Crimson finished with a share of sixth—tied with Bryant University—amid the 15-team field. Harvard combined to shoot 864 over the three-round weekend...
...Energy, says there have been isolated examples of success growing jatropha. "Occasionally a tree has survived in a marginal area and produces quite a bit of seed with no [agricultural] inputs whatsoever. But there's a difference between that one tree and replicating it thousands of times in the field," he says. The problem with jatropha, scientists say, is that there is no proven, widely disseminated method for growing it properly...
...wreckage, a pair of Japanese dogs - Eros, a German shepherd, and Akane, a Golden retriever - begin sniffing through the mountains of rubble from the once-graceful colonial-style historic building. The dogs were each trained for five years for such missions, but this is their first time in the field overseas. "Sometimes when you are doing the training, you forget that it's for something real, says Hidehiro Murase, the president of the Rescue Dog Trainers' Association of Japan, who had flown in with the animals on the night of Oct. 2. "And then you come to a place like...