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...White’s 131 yards per game. But the Leopards padded their numbers against lightweights Marist and Georgetown and the first half-decent team they faced, Penn, shut Lafayette down in the second half last week.The Crimson defense will do the Quakers’ one better and cause havoc for the Leopards the entire game. Look for a rebound week for Harvard.Prediction: Harvard 27, Lafayette 17DARTMOUTH (0-2, 0-0 Ivy) AT PENN (0-2, 0-0 Ivy)Numbers don’t lie, but they are occasionally misleading.Yes, both of these teams are winless, but Penn took...
Abandoned ships wreak havoc on the marine ecosystem long after they've sunk. Decaying wreckages leach toxic chemicals like petroleum products and PCBs that remain in the water harming or destroying sea life and potentially enter the food chain, eventually getting ingested by humans. Sometimes dead watercraft foster the growth of new sea life that threatens the pre-existing local ecosystem. On Palmyra Atoll, 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, a population explosion of corallimorph, an aggressive creature similar to anemones and coral, killed almost all the coral growing around a long-line fishing vessel that sank in 1991, according...
...combustible emotions and unpredictable behavior of teens to this biochemical onslaught. And new research adds fresh support. At puberty, the ovaries and testes begin to pour estrogen and testosterone into the bloodstream, spurring the development of the reproductive system, causing hair to sprout in the armpits and groin, wreaking havoc with the skin, and shaping the body to its adult contours. At the same time, testosterone-like hormones released by the adrenal glands, located near the kidneys, begin to circulate. Recent discoveries show that these adrenal sex hormones are extremely active in the brain, attaching to receptors everywhere and exerting...
...added that a newfound sense of community has emerged in Houston as “a lot of neighbors are helping each other out” in this time of crisis. Many in the storm-prone region did not expect Ike, a Category 2 hurricane, to wreak so much havoc. While Akinfenwa said that his family boarded up the windows for Hurricane Rita in September of 2005, they did not do so for Ike. In preparation, Kodama’s family had only bought food for a few days. Tough times remain ahead for Houston. Kodama and other Houston residents...
...same-intensity hurricane today wreaks all sorts of havoc that wouldn't have occurred had human beings not migrated. (To see how your own coastal county has changed in population, check out this cool graphing tool from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...