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Harvard lightweight crew fared significantly better than its older, heavier counterpart. The Crimson overran a surprisingly fast Navy crew for its 29th Haines Cup on the Severn River in Annapolis Maryland...
...daughter Kathleen died in a plane crash in southern France. Then the world mourned with Rose when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 and again when his brother Robert was slain in 1968. Her husband died the following year. ``God does not send us a cross heavier than we can bear,'' she once said. ``How you cope is the important thing.'' DIED. BAMBI, 31, female red deer, since 1989 the oldest of her species known to man, according to the Guinness Book of World Records; put down after a stroke; near Inverness, Scotland. John and Nancy Fraser...
...when scientists finally put a representative sampling of Americans on the scale, the decade's secret scandal was uncovered: rather than getting healthy in the health-conscious '80s, Americans actually plumped out. It's not just that individuals got heavier as they got older, although they did: the average weight gain between ages 30 and 39 is 4 lbs. for men and 9 lbs. for women. It's that fortysomethings are now heavier than fortysomethings were 10 years ago, thirtysomethings now are heavier than thirtysomethings then, and so on down the demographic ladder...
Students' suitcases, weighed down by texts and spiral notebooks, may be heavier. But many say they appreciate the extra study time...
...losses highlighted what had already been a glaring weakness for the Crimson squad: its heavier weight classes...