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...called "The Last Marathon" - a 26.2-mile race across ice, rock, snow, and mud on Antarctica's King George Island. Runners huddle by the start line, shielded from the wind in the lee of a Russian research base, before bursting out along the rugged, hilly course. Up and down three quarters of a mile of glacier - twice - and looping through a further three Antarctic research stations, the 145 finishers race in hats, gloves, fleece and windbreakers. In fact, on race day in late February, it's warm enough to be snowing - this is, after all, the end of the Antarctic...
...untouched continent, the site of many - if not most - of the world's last truly pristine landscapes. International treaties preserve Antarctica for scientific research and tourism. And, unlike the Arctic, the Antarctic has yet to see many drastic effects of climate change. Visitors can still see cliffs of ice and the brilliant light blue of icebergs. They can see humpback whales and leopard seals cruise alongside their Zodiacs, or watch penguins chasing each other along the shore and pecking at visitors' boots...
...ice melted and the temperatures rose this weekend, the No. 4 Harvard co-ed sailing team traveled to Newport, R.I. and took fourth at the Salve Regina Wood Trophy race. The No. 9 women’s team opened its season with mixed results at the Navy Women’s Regatta in Annapolis, M.D., taking sixth place despite limited outside training during the winter months. WOOD TROPHY After winning the Sharpe Trophy Team race last weekend, the Crimson traveled to Regina Salve University without co-ed captain Kyle Kovacs, who spent the weekend at home training with professional sailors...
...Patty Kazmaier Award finalists on the ice, it was not Chu but Wisconsin’s Sara Bauer who tipped the scales in the end, setting up Zaugg’s game-winner with an incisive cut through the Harvard defense and a crisp tape-to-tape pass...
...ice cream, make babies: That was FM’s conclusion after reading a study published Feb. 28 by Harvard researcher Jorge E. Chavarro and colleagues which claimed that women who ate one or more servings of high-fat dairy foods were less likely to experience problems with ovulation. Armed with this information, we set out to find the tastiest ways to get knocked up in Harvard Square. “This makes me feel better about myself, because the scoops are huge,” says Lizzy’s employee Anna E. Bendroth. For wannabe moms, Bendroth recommends...