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...half of the inning to take the lead.With Stack-Babich on first, Walsh sent in Zailskas as a pinch hitter. Making amends for his below-par pitching performance earlier, the junior knocked a big single up the middle. Senior outfielder Matt Rogers was then hit by a pitch to load the bases for Reynolds, who poked a hit through the right side of the infield, bringing home Stack-Babich and Zailskas.Harvard extended its lead to 4-2 in the fifth, courtesy of an RBI single from Stack-Babich.Hulse got into trouble in the seventh, but the double-play ball came...
...Take, for instance, the matter of laundry. With over 6,000 undergraduates, Harvard students have a lot of clothes to wash. If each student does laundry once a week—and this is assuming only one load of laundry—that’s over 180,000 loads per academic year. Not only is that a lot of water, it’s also a lot of laundry detergent—over 280,000 ounces of liquid detergent, to be precise, given that the detergent of choice is doubly concentrated. Unfortunately, most of this laundry detergent...
About 1,000 homes will be enrolled in an advanced trial that will turn them into smart buildings, with smart control panels and thermostats that will help manage electrical loads and reduce energy use during peak periods. (One of the biggest potential benefits of the smart grid is the ability to manage the electrical load; today utilities need to have enough capacity to meet rare days of peak demand, but if a smart grid could smooth out those peaks, it might reduce the need for new power plants.) "We invested a lot in this technology," says Lewis...
...color commentator for CBS, immediately finding success with his blend of sharp technical insight and muddled diction. Among the classic phrases attributed to him: "He was standing in the hole waiting for something to develop...and WHAP!, he got developed." "Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon." He also coined the phrase "doink...
...anniversary of Apollo 11, which landed in the area of the moon known as the Sea of Tranquility, according to a NASA press release from Tuesday. Although the component was not named “Colbert,” NASA will call its new space treadmill COLBERT (Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill). The announcement was made Tuesday night on The Colbert Report by NASA Astronaut ‘Sunita Williams, the first person to run the Boston Marathon in space. But the decision to name a treadmill after Colbert was perplexing to many students...