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...three of the four Harvard-Yale matchups, bookending their careers with Ivy championships, but they also helped produce some of the most memorable triumphs in Harvard history.The Class of 2008’s introduction to Harvard-Yale could not have been more perfect. The Crimson, which took the field with a 9-0 record, had clinched the league title. The team was looking to win 10 games and to finish the season undefeated, a feat that Harvard football had not achieved for a century. With a soon-to-be NFL draftee, quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick...
...optimistic how that might turn out,” Graves said. “We’ve got three guys for sure that we’re pretty confident are going to be coming back, and then with what we get with recruits, we hope that we can field a team of at least six.” Graves also emphasized the potential for next year after positive recruiting for the young women’s side. “We’re recruiting from all over the country now and it’s going really well...
...probably won us the tournament,” sophomore Greg Shuman said. “When you perform that well under pressure, it’s a thing to see.” The team had a less-than-auspicious start to the year, finishing 18th in a field of 18 schools at the McLaughlin in September. Rallying to take fifth at the MacDonald Cup at Yale and then ninth at the fall’s focal point, the ECAC Division I Championships, the team had yet to see a player make a top 15 individual finish. Before the close...
...Samo is already a veteran: Last month, he was part of a crew of 10 rodents that successfully sniffed out all the mines in fields totaling 130,000 square feet around the village of Macia in southern Mozambique. But today's exercise is only a practice run. A grassy field on the edge of town has been set up to resemble a real minefield ready to be cleared. Dozens of 100-square meter (1,076 square feet) plots are demarcated by markers and strings, red perimeters signify areas of dangers, while green marks the safe zones where the handlers stand...
...Rats are almost perfectly suited for this type of work, argues Mkumbo. They are easy to train and transport to clearance sites, cheap to feed, and resistant to many of the tropical diseases to which dogs succumb. In the field, they are quick and methodical. Thirty-six rats trained in Tanzania are working on the project so far, and have already cleared thousands of mines across the country. "Two rats can clear a 200-square-meter area in one hour," says Mkumbo. "It takes one [human] de-miner two weeks to do the same area." And all that the rats...