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...Harvard’s varsity eight rowed a particularly strong race on Lake Carnegie in Princeton, N.J., beating MIT and Princeton by an impressive margin of more than eight seconds. The Crimson gained a boat-length lead in the first 500 meters of the race, and steadily increased its margins throughout the next 1500 meters, leaving Princeton and MIT to fight it out in its wake...
...best Dartmouth by 6.8 seconds. Syracuse finished in third place with a time of 7:09.5.“We were able to stay really internal in our boat and focus on the rhythm,” senior Sarah Moore said. “We probably had a length coming into the 1000 and just took it from there.”The Second Varsity Eight dispatched both opponents in similar style, turning in a first-place finish in 7:07.1. The closest race of the day—the Varsity Four A—did not go the Black...
...Between 1974 and 2006, summer conditions in the Mediterranean expanded by 40%, meaning the season has grown on average one day longer each year. For the Gorgonia and other sensitive suspension invertebrates - the term refers to the organisms' habit of feeding on particles suspended in the water - the added length has made an already tough season even tougher...
...Faust admires the floor-length portrait of former University president Charles W. Eliot...
...vessel can chase pirates into places bigger warships could never go. The LCS is "an ideal platform" for unconventional Navy missions, including "counterpiracy operations," Rear Admiral Victor Guillory, director of the Navy's surface-warfare division, told a House panel on March 10. But at 400 feet in length and $500 million each - and with initial production plagued by problems - the Navy is not going to be able to buy enough to stamp out piracy anytime soon...