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That question is a long way from being answered, but a study published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences takes a small step in that direction. A team of researchers used 22 years' worth of carefully accumulated measurements of hardwood forests in and near the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, in Edgewater, Md., to show that their growth has accelerated significantly. On average, the stands were expanding at a rate of two extra tons of mass per acre per year, by the end of the study - the equivalent of a single two-foot-diameter tree...
...Battle of the ‘Bridge was fought for just the 11th time this afternoon as Cambridge’s two elite academic institutions stepped outside the classroom and duked it out on the hardwood for the first time since the 1985-86 season...
...points the last time he stepped onto the Conte hardwood, ended the Crimson’s scoring drought with under five minutes to play in the first half, nailing a long three-pointer that he launched just seconds before the shot clock would have expired...
Impressive physical specimens and versatile threats on the hardwood, Powell and Odom would constitute tremendous coups by Harvard if either were to commit. They are the caliber of player the likes of which the Ivy League rarely encounters, but as always, it remains to be seen where the prospects...
...lavish, Bhatt said.“There was a huge amount of pressure to keep expenses extremely low, so...it’s not as comfy-loungey as some may expect it to be,” said Bhatt, who added that the designers had originally intended to install hardwood floors but ultimately opted for linoleum. “That was definitely something that hung over all of the design committee’s meetings: ‘Okay, is this within our budget?’”Though the concept of an undergraduate study space had existed...