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Curry blossomed quickly, leading the women cagers in scoring in her freshman year with an 11.7 average. The team finished 18-3 on the year and won the state Division Two basketball crown. She proved her all-around ability on the hardwood by setting single-game and single-season records in rebounds and assists...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: CARYN CURRY: Basketball Star 'Plays Like a Man,' But Sparks Rise of Women's Sports | 2/28/1979 | See Source »

...past five years the long dormant wood-stove industry has been fanned back to life by the energy crisis, and nowhere is demand stronger than in New England, where good old-fashioned Yankee self-reliance and vast stands of hardwood forests stretching from the Canadian border to the New York City suburbs are combining to help free the region from its 80% dependence on foreign oil. Since 1970, the use of wood for energy in New England has grown sixfold, and in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire a full 18% of all households now rely on the fuel as their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Glowing Future for Forest Power | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...what number did the Houdini of the Hardwood wear with Cincy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Cube First Annual Basketball Mid-Year | 1/19/1979 | See Source »

With Curry and Holpuch back on the hardwood, the Crimson whittled the UNH lead down to 58-51 with three minutes to play. The potent duo paced the charge as Harvard went on to outscore New Hampshire 22-6 in the last ten minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoopsters Fall in IAB Opener As Wildcats Squeak by, 62-59 | 12/6/1978 | See Source »

...short distance to the southwest, the worst tent caterpillar infestation in 25 years has already chewed up 40,000 acres of maple and other hardwood forests in the state of Vermont. Yet Vermont foresters consider themselves fortunate. Some mysterious disease seems to be killing off the caterpillars-bugs eating bugs-and earlier estimates that the damage would spread to some 100,000 acres may not prove true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bugs vs. Man, Beasts and Crops | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

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