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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Time is running out on the "early season jitters" excuse. The winless women's basketball team last night dropped its fourth game in a row, this time to UNH, 66-48, at the Wildcats' den in Durham...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Cagers Lose Third Straight To UNH Five | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Playing listlessly, the cagers fell behind 48-24 at the half and allowed the Wildcats to glide easily through the final 20 minutes. The hoopsters sorely missed the leadership of co-captain Caryn Curry, who missed the game...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Cagers Lose Third Straight To UNH Five | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Individual Harvard players played well in spots, but the team never mustered a concerted effort. Point guard Ann Scannell, for instance, scored all of her eight points during a brilliant burst near the game's end after failing to dent the formidable UNH defense for the entire first half...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Cagers Lose Third Straight To UNH Five | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Sports fishermen had largely given up on the lakes, as stocks of walleyed pike, lake trout and other game species disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Comeback for the Great Lakes | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...Large game fish are making a comeback. Virtually wiped out by overfishing, pollution and the eellike sea lamprey (an ocean predator that apparently first migrated from the Hudson River into the lakes after man had opened the way with the Erie Canal, the native lake trout is again being pulled from the lakes by sports fishermen, who now can also catch coho and chinook salmon from the Pacific Ocean. Still, despite the fact that the waters are cleaner and the lamprey has been contained by a concerted attack on its breeding ground, the game fish population can be sustained only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Comeback for the Great Lakes | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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