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Saturday on the Schulykill River in Philadelphia, the Harvard heavyweight crew caught a boat-jarring crab with a four-seat lead in the last 100 meters that brought the varsity eight to a screeching halt and allowed the Penn and Navy boats to pass it. The Crimson then paddled across the finish line a distant 40 seconds behind the Quakers...
Community activists, however, pointed to the name change as a sign of the success of their efforts to halt the hotel's redevelopment...
Middlesex Superior Court Judge Katherine White recently ruled against Defense Fund members in a suit designed to halt the project, finding that the plaintiffs had no standing to bring a case against the developer...
Harrison Ngau, a Kayan tribesman in Malaysian Borneo, has endured imprisonment, house arrest and government harassment over the past three years. His "crime": helping Borneo's indigenous people try to halt the rampant logging that is destroying their way of life and some of earth's most ancient tropical forests...
...first priority will be to halt the destruction of the Amazon, but he has also vowed to protect Brazil's last remaining Atlantic forests and gravely threatened savannas. Some Brazilians are concerned that the new Secretary might be too inflexible and idealistic for the rough realities of government, but Lutzenberger, 63, calls himself a "possibilist." The Gaia Foundation, a private organization he set up, finances problem-solving environmental projects. Example: an effort to help poor settlers improve agricultural techniques so that they do not have to clear as much forest land to produce enough crops...