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Surviving the flood was just the first challenge. The Nathans then spent two days searching for food and water and being turned away from checkpoints...
Geology has only made things worse. Gulf land is squishy stuff, made mostly of silt deposited by eons of free-flowing rivers and periodic floods. When the high water recedes, the sedimentary layer remains, growing heavier and heavier and ultimately subsiding under its own weight. The only way to keep the land from sinking altogether is to let the soil replenish itself with each flood. Human beings have done just the opposite, walling off New Orleans and re-engineering the Mississippi River to flow around the growing metropolis, effectively choking off the silt supply...
...Saturday with 2:22 remaining, the match went 11:38 without a score until Big Green freshman Brian Koch put the game away with 1:16 gone in the third overtime.In those periods, Harvard appeared to take control for the first time since the opening minutes. Junior John Henry Flood won the face-off at the beginning of each overtime to give his team the opportunity to strike before Dartmouth had the chance.“Over the course of the overtime we had possession probably two-thirds or three-quarters of the time, because John Henry was doing such...
...minutes on Saturday evening, John Henry Flood kept the Harvard men’s lacrosse team in the game against Dartmouth. The junior midfielder won a career-high 25 of 29 faceoffs heading into the third overtime, and kept a Big Green offense—the Ivy League’s second-most prolific—off the field enough during the game to help the Crimson to a stunning 73-36 advantage in shots taken.But Flood was unable to win his 30th and most important faceoff, one that Dartmouth controlled and used to score the game-winning goal just...
...well behaved, he could eventually be allowed to have a black-and-white television in his cell that plays, on closed circuit, religious programs, psychological help tapes or educational shows. His toilet can flush only a certain number of times an hour so he can't flood his room to get the guard's attention. For the same reason, his shower will run only for a short period of time...