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...Radcliffe women’s lightweight crew took to the water for the first time this spring, and after a mixed-bag performance on Saturday against Georgetown in the Class of 2004 Cup, the team regrouped and swept Holy Cross and Smith yesterday. Consistently, the band of novice walk-ons shined, placing first on both days, smoking boats full of girls with greater experience. “It took a lot of hard work this week over spring break and a lot of focus,” novice stroke Elyse Traverse said. “We’ve done...
...Your Water Bottle Safe? Here's what you need to know before you chug that H2O [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Single-Use PET Polycarbonate HDPE Stainless Steel What it's made of Polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, is a lightweight plastic used in many drink bottles This thermoplastic polymer is used in many products, including water containers High-density polyethylene is a softer, opaque plastic made from petroleum These bottles are made of durable and light stainless steel inside and out Potential problems PET degrades with use, and wrinkled surfaces can host germs...
Polycarbonate plastic is used for a reason: It's useful. Hard, shatterproof, lightweight and clear, it's in a huge range of products from water bottles and food storage containers, to lenses in eyeglasses and car headlights, CDs and DVDs, and even bulletproof glass. "Whether you realize it or not, you use it in your life every day," says Steven Hentges, head of the polycarbonate group at the industry lobby organization American Chemistry Council. There are, of course, alternatives to polycarbonates, like glass and other plastics. And for the growing number of consumers opposed to bisphenol A, there...
...economic might, the European Union is still widely seen as a geopolitical lightweight, and that is not likely to change until its 27 member countries figure out how to better muster and coordinate the crude authority of military power...
...some of the stories that have already been told this year: the Evangelical community, tired of being courted and then ignored by smoother Republican candidates, turning out in Iowa to support Mike Huckabee, a man who is authentically of their stock, even if the party establishment thought him a lightweight; the thousands of college students who have seen in Barack Obama someone who speaks to their, and not their parents', concerns; the women in New Hampshire who rescued Hillary Clinton's no-longer-inevitable march to the White House; the men and women of all political hues and none...