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...according to at least one study, was evidently interrupted by frigid spells lasting hundreds of years. If that period was more typical than the present one, humanity's invention of agriculture, and thus civilization, may have been possible only because of a highly unusual period of stable temperature -- a fluke...
...drop was the greatest for any single month since October 1983. The November rate, in fact, was about what some forecasters had been predicting for the end of next year. There is always a chance that any startling one-month fluctuation will turn out to be a fluke, or at least subject to later correction...
...Harvard (5-2-1, 5-2-1 ECAC) is eerily one point ahead of Northern Michigan, the school that knocked the Crimson out of the NCAA tournament last March in Worcester, Mass. Lightly regarded coming into the year, the Wildcats continue to show that such an upset is no fluke, last weekend splitting two games with sixth-ranked Wisconsin...
This year, Sullivan finally gets to play hisown recruits--and by extension, he is on triallike never before. Is the 6-20 record a fluke?Harvard, with its diverse student body from acrossthe country, has many basketball fans waiting fora winning team, and Sullivan has failed to inspirethem...
This year, Sullivan finally gets to play hisown recruits--and by extension, he is on triallike never before. Is the 6-20 record a fluke?Harvard, with its diverse student body from acrossthe country, has many basketball fans waiting fora winning team, and Sullivan has failed to inspirethem...