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...point two weeks ago the Harvard men’s soccer team (7-1-1) was ranked as high as No. 7 in the country. Currently listed as the 11th-best team in the nation, the defending Ivy League Champions are likely to float back into the top 10 this week after dominating Fairfield (5-2-1) in a 5-0 cakewalk on Saturday. Harvard dominated the possession in the first half but found itself with only a one-goal advantage at the break. After a quick goal to open the second half, the Crimson was off and running. When...
...only that, but most of the krill surrounding the bergs die natural deaths and float to the bottom of the sea--taking with them the globe-warming carbon dioxide pulled from the atmosphere by the phytoplankton they fed on. That CO2, once absorbed, is kept from doing any more harm. It's not enough to cancel out human-generated greenhouse gases, but it doesn't hurt. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy...
...Four years ago, the river was covered with trash,” says Thomas J. McNichol, a retired 69-year-old living in Worcester. “Islands of trash would float back and forth, because it’s not really a river, it’s a dam. You’d see the same trash going back and fourth across the river week after week. A group of us decided one day that we’d clean...
...rock-bottom rates, just as they were before. The risk premium that Asian borrowers have to pay is near historical lows. It's a worrying sign of global exuberance. Ironically, Asia has played a role in stoking dangerous imbalances in the global economy. Its 'dirty-peg' currencies, which ostensibly float but in fact are controlled by central banks, have kept exports higher and imports lower than they would be otherwise. In the case of China, with its $1.2 trillion of foreign-exchange reserves, the cash is inflating an asset bubble in stock and property markets...
...public broadcaster. As the crowd moved steadily through the streets of Causeway Bay, a popular shopping district, union representatives brushed shoulders with nationalists bearing oversized posters of Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen and bright Taiwan flags. Groups of demonstrators broke up to make way for an oversized wooden float piloted by an elderly driver hawking traditional Chinese medicine for crow's feet...