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...finishing first in both the 1650-meter freestyle and 500-meter freestyle. After staying neck-and-neck with Navy’s Erik Hunter for the first two-thirds of the 1650-meter event, Meyer was able to kick in and touch the wall in 15:40.46, ending a length ahead of his opponent.The Crimson also placed first in both of the day’s relay events. Diekema, junior Simone Melillo, senior Bill Jones, and co-captain David Guernsey took the 200-meter medley relay in a time of 1:32.40. Winning the final event of the meet...
...Hirano's sophomore album klo:yuri takes its cue from her minimalist full-length debut, 2006's LushRush, although she strips away much of the live instrumentation of her previous offering, relying more heavily on field recordings, synthetic effects and her own ethereal voice. These elements are blended through subtle orchestrations and seamless improvisations to create a sensual, cinematic sound - think Michael Nyman times Hans Zimmer to the power of Sigur...
...keep them in line. This tug-of-war - essentially a transfer of energy between the Earth and the moon - boosts the moon's orbital momentum, pushing it away from the Earth at a rate of 1.6 inches a year (the moon's distance from us will increase by the length of a football field over the course of 2,250 years), while reducing the Earth's rotational speed and lengthening the day. (See pictures of Earth from space...
...highest caliber, but someone who has been steeped in policy," wrote Bart Gordon, the Democratic Tennessee representative who chairs the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology, in an e-mail. "This is a strong message that science will no longer be kept at an arm's length in the White House...
...reached an early maturity with his second full-length play, The Caretaker, which the Lord Chamberlain, the British censor, called "a piece of incoherence in the manner of Samuel Beckett" - unintentional high praise indeed. It's the tale of an old homeless man, Jenkins (played onstage and in the excellent 1963 film version by Donald Pleasance), who is brought to the home of the simple-minded Aston (Robert Shaw) and his conniving brother Mick (Alan Bates). Jenkins begins as the ratty interloper but becomes sympathetic by default as the brothers play their mind games. The plot fits the contours...