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Except when you can't. In Superfreakonomics, he and Dubner detour from small puzzles (can you find a terrorist by using financial data? How much money do prostitutes make?) to tackle the big, big issue of global warming. This is partly an opportunity for Levitt to express his skepticism of models of complex phenomena such as the global economy or, in this case, the global climate. Mainly, though, it's an excuse to tout the mind-blowing ideas for combatting global warming that he and Dubner learned about while hanging out with former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold...
...Tigers seemed to find their fire towards the end of the first half, outshooting the Crimson, 4-1, in the last 10 minutes of the half. Princeton carried that intensity into the second half and dominated the ball just as Harvard had done for much of the first half...
With 1:43 remaining in the second quarter, the Crimson had the ball at the Tigers’ six-yard line. Winters took the snap and rolled to his right, trying to find an open receiver...
...rain] didn’t help the quality of play,” Clark said. “But you have to be able to play in pockets, and we didn’t find pockets to play...
Unlike the way many other crews approached this competition, the Black and White did not send a second varsity eight or any novice boats. Given the sheer number of boats involved, a strategic shift is also needed to find success in this type of event...