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Ironically, it was a freshman who stepped upfor the Crimson in crunch time. Gates convertedtwo key lay-ups in the final 1:18 to help Harvardsurvive its own inexperience and Wofford's latecharge. Sturdy added a free throw with 11 secondsremaining to close out the scoring...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Basketball Bitten by Bulldogs | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Kinneen was involved in six consecutive Harvardscores within a five-minute stretch, recording twobuckets, three assists and two steals. She wasalso the author of the game's most vicious block,a swat of an attempted fast-break lay-up byWofford's Meredith Denton midway through thesecond half that left Denton on her back and sentthe ball careening off the wall of LavietesPavilion...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Basketball Bitten by Bulldogs | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

That was in August 1992. Seventeen months later, in January 1994, Seaboard announced that it would shutter its hog-slaughtering operations and lay off upwards of 600 employees. The company said it would keep about 300 workers to process and produce ready-to-buy meats like bacon, sausage and ham. (The number of employees eventually dropped to about 200, and Seaboard sold the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: The Empire Of The Pigs | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...embryos lay to rest suspicions voiced by paleontological gadfly Robert Bakker that sauropods gave birth to live young--though the grinding wear patterns on the embryonic teeth hint that the little dinos probably did break out of their shells voraciously hungry. Under a microscope, the postage stamp-size patches of fossilized embryonic skin--the first ever found--turned out to have scales arrayed in distinctive patterns (rosettes, parallel rows) similar to the arrangement of the small bony plates on the backs of titanosaurs. This could mean, says Chiappe, that like modern crocodiles, the young sauropods grew body armor as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unscrambling the Past | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...music, even if you have a tin ear. I tried Sonic's Acid Rock ($49.95), which comes with more than 500 sound clips. You can listen to any clip by simply selecting it; when you find a sound you like, slap it onto a track in the editing room. Lay down a bass line, add percussion and instrumentation--the software will even resolve the key so that everything harmonizes. What's new and astounding here is that everything is rendered in real time: raise the pitch or lower it, speed up or slow down the beat while staying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next Year's Model | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

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