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After Baribeau and Tegan Schroder were whistled for consecutive penalties at 13:01 and 13:29, the Crimson set up on a 5-on-3 advantage. Forty seconds later, freshman Jillian Dempsey won a faceoff and passed the puck back to senior Anna McDonald...
...Golden Knights settled down to knot the score again three minutes later on an unassisted tally from Brittany Mulligan. After making a defensive stop, Mulligan beat out two defenders to backhand the puck into the top right corner...
Less than a minute later, Baskind added her fourth score of the game, and suddenly the Crimson was within striking distance...
...More than half a millennium later, Zheng has become a potent symbol for modern China. In 2005, the country marked the 600th anniversary of the seven voyages from 1405 to 1433 undertaken by Zheng's vast "treasure fleets" with nationwide celebrations; the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing dramatized his explorations from Southeast Asia to the Middle East and the shores of Africa. On Feb. 26, China's Ministry of Commerce announced it was funding a three-year project with the assistance of the Kenyan government to search for Ming-era vessels that had supposedly foundered...
...legacy of Zheng's voyages - involving hundreds of ships, some exponentially larger than the three captained by Christopher Columbus decades later, in 1492 - is being invoked by the Chinese as historical proof of the difference between China's and the West's roles in the world. Though the unprecedented display of maritime power was meant to extend the Ming dynasty's reach over a network of tributary states, Zheng rarely resorted to the type of violent, coercive measures taken for centuries by European colonizers, especially in Africa. "Zheng's a nominal symbol of China's peaceful engagement with the world...