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...position. As the Tigers cleared the puck from their own zone, Princeton’s Kevin Keiser exited the penalty box in the neutral zone just as the puck deflected in his direction. Finding himself on a breakaway with 2:36 remaining, Keiser buried a wrist shot from the hash mark past Harvard sophomore netminder Kyle Richter for the go-ahead goal. “He was pretty much all alone,” junior forward Jimmy Fraser said. “He had enough time to bear down and pick his spot.” As the final seconds...
Despite the state's reputation as a hotbed of local political participation, only about 200,000 Iowans (6-7% of the state's population) normally participate in the caucuses. They gather in school auditoriums, churches and homes to publicly hash out their picks...
...science has been settled. Now we have to do something about global warming. From Dec. 3 to 14 on the island of Bali, environmental ministers will meet to try to hash out the start of a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. The world will be represented, but the shape of any deal will be decided by a few major carbon emitters...
What, if anything, the participants hash out in Geneva will be closely watched as far away as Aska Aja, another Piaroa village upriver from Uruka Amahuaja. There, Royero recently met with a shaman, Jacinto Martinez, 62, whose wife had died hours earlier from an operable eye tumor. The tribe had no access to a surgeon--nor money to pay one. For years, Martinez has helped scientists identify plants near Aska Aja that treat everything from skin rashes to diarrhea. What he would like in return, he says, waving away flies from his wife's wrapped corpse, is some...
...Princeton and Rutgers played the first intercollegiate game of “football,” which bore a striking resemblance to soccer. Meanwhile, Harvard had been playing their own version, based roughly on the rules of rugby. Ever the football snobs, Harvard declined an invitation to hash out official rules for the game alongside Columbia, Princeton, Rutgers and Yale. It wasn’t until 1874, when Harvard played against McGill University, that the birth of intercollegiate football was officially recognized. Harvard’s elitism won out in 1875 in the first Harvard-Yale match-up. Yale...