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After Harvard's opening scoring drive, the Crimson struck again with 31 seconds left in the first quarter on another 1-yard rush by Linden. At 11:43 of the second, Linden completed his lone touchdown pass to senior tight end Tom Giardi...
...several linemen in previous weeks, junior starting tight end Chris Eitzmann went down with a medial collateral ligament sprain, leaving senior Tom Giardi as the Crimson's only experienced threat at that position. Giardi stepped into the role quickly, making four catches for 46 yards and the Crimson's lone receiving touchdown Saturday...
...Well, they're just following the Lone Star State, the nation's execution capital, which so far this year has put to death 132 inmates. Once, most executions took place at midnight, the better to avoid the crowds that congregated at daylight hangings. But with Texas' hectic killing schedule, a lot of folks were forced to miss a lot of sleep, so in 1995 the Texas department of criminal justice moved the time to the dinner hour, 6 p.m. Prison officials got to go to bed early, and judges did not have to be wakened with last-minute appeals...
DIED. YEVGENI KHALDEI, 80, World War II photographer who pointedly snapped Russia's famous answer to America's iconic image of the flag raising on Iwo Jima: a lone soldier waving the Soviet standard over a devastated Berlin; in Moscow...
...half penis--hidden in the base of the tail. Some species, such as common king snakes, deploy these alternatively in successive matings--perhaps, says Greene, to allow more frequent copulation. When Borneo's yellow-lipped sea- kraits breed, as many as half a dozen males may pile on a lone female. Copulation is usually brief but can last more than a day for Western diamondbacks (probably to reduce the female's exposure to rival males). Female snakes too deploy cunning reproductive strategies. North American pit vipers, for example, store sperm for months, until some instinct tells the cold-blooded creatures...