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...both the Harvard men’s heavyweight and lightweight crew teams, this year has seen rigorous and dedicated training lead to success, but with the end of the spring season quickly approaching, each team has something left to prove...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Crew Hopes for Top Finish | 5/30/2009 | See Source »

Sotomayor, Sonia •attacks by conservatives on - despite summa cum laude degree and various other academic achievements of - as an intellectual lightweight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 5/29/2009 | See Source »

Netbooks are small, stripped-down laptops that are inexpensive ($400-ish) and lightweight (3 lb.--ish). But their screens and keyboards are too petite for my taste, and they tend to lack the all-important DVD drive. That said, the idea behind netbooks isn't a bad one: since just about every type of program we need is freely available online (from e-mail to PowerPoint knockoffs), why pay for expensive computers that run expensive software programs? Better yet, when you create a document using one of these free services, you can't lose it; the document lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Netbooks | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

...finish, falling to Yale but beating Brown with a time of 7:35.2. “All of the boats across the board performed above and beyond,” Kendrick said. “Everyone was at the top of their game today.”For the lightweight squad, the weekend was more bittersweet. Ranked No. 2 nationally going into the race, the varsity eight could not stop Wisconsin, Princeton and Georgetown from taking control. “The first varsity race had a pretty disappointing race,” senior captain Rebekkah Kharrazi said...

Author: By Alex Sopko, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Shores Up Skills in Jersey | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

...would better divert the force of the bombs. Additional armor could also be added to the existing designs of the 27-ton vehicles to better protect against RPGs and, just in case, enemy tank fire. The Army Research Lab could also receive more funding to speed up development of lightweight armor composites that would provide the protection of traditional steel at a fraction of the weight. (Check out a story on how the Army is developing robots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At the Pentagon, It's Tanks, But No Tanks | 5/10/2009 | See Source »

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