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Indeed, the Crimson is also noteworthy among the Ivy League teams for its youth. Harvard routinely fields a starting lineup that includes four freshmen (Wylie, back Nicky Rhodes, midfielder Rachael Lau, and midfielder Allison Keeley) and three sophomores (midfielder Megan Merritt, forward Jamie Greenwald, and back Michelle Hull) among its eleven field players...
...Harvard struggled to mount an attack with the slim lead, the defense became harder and harder pressed to keep the Terriers under wraps. Fortunately for the Crimson, co-captain goalie Katie Shields and her backs—senior Sara Sedgwick, junior co-captain Laura Odorczyk, sophomore Michelle Hull and freshman Nicky Rhodes—were able to bend without breaking...
...Powered by two 60-horsepower outboard motors, their rigid-hull inflatable boat is the most valued piece of police equipment in these parts. Before ramsi, there was no police boat or vehicle, and local officers often had to borrow canoes or walk long distances to bring in a suspect or respond to a call for help. On a cloudy, humid afternoon, in Roviana lagoon, south of Munda, RSIP officer Ege Saro skippers the inflatable around shallow-lying coral reefs. Reaching open water, he pushes it to a zippy, if bumpy, 27 knots. After a 50-min. journey, the boat arrives...
Even the newest equipment can fail, however, if it is not properly repaired and maintained. The 747 that struck a mountain in Japan apparently lost control of its rear navigation system. Boeing has since acknowledged that a repair of the back hull, which it performed seven years before the accident, was improperly done. In view of that, the FAA ordered immediate reinspection of all similar repairs. The agency has been cracking down on improper maintenance practices. Says Engen: "In the past two years, we have put on the ground, or severely restrained, 52 airlines." A grounded carrier may not legally...
...earnest Dunn must confront a grown son he didn't know he had, and is haunted by the sound of his prisoners talking late at night: "There was something ghastly about it; it was like listening to the voices of men who'd died together, trapped in the hull of a boat or in a building on fire, hundreds of years ago." The book ends poised between hope, heartbreak and history. Politically, Dean's heart is clearly with the republican cause, though she found little to like in the leaders she interviewed. "They're brilliant propagandists, and it's awesome...