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...running portion of the championships, sophomore Meghan Looney placed sixth in the 800-meter run, less than 0.1 seconds behind fifth-place finisher Anna Scull from Cornell...
...Saturday, another Harvard women’s team turned in a dominant performance, with the quartet of Davis, Lee, sophomore Meghan Looney, and junior Hilary May winning the 4x800-meter relay in 8:46.98. Their time topped 25 other teams, including second-place Dartmouth by nearly six seconds. The team fell just three seconds short of breaking the 13-year-old meet record in the event, held by Penn State...
...Michael Looney, the head of the mortuary-affairs investigative unit in Haiti, says the site has become too dangerous to continue excavation and poses increasing risk to his crew and to fragile homes in the surrounding area. His team is now returning to the U.S. "The success was so great," says Looney of the bodies they recovered. At one of the major recovery sites, the Hotel Montana, in the upper-class area of Pétionville, Looney's team recovered the remains of 17 Americans, including students from Lynn University...
...Looney says there was often no way of distinguishing Americans from Haitians, so each body would be dug up at a site. "The number of Haitians far exceeded the number of Americans recovered," says Looney. "We would hand them over to the Port-au-Prince morgue" - a morgue he described as a "hellhole" with hundreds of bodies stacked on top of one another. "They didn't even use rubber gloves to handle the bodies until we gave them some," says Looney. The Americans found the bodies they had turned over to the Haitians lying in the same overcrowded morgue weeks...
...memorial service for his daughter on April 16, which would have been Lodz's seventh birthday. He recalls the frantic efforts to find her weeks ago. Each dust-covered body pulled out, Annoule hoped would be his daughter. "While looking for Lodz, I saved five children but lost mine." Looney thinks of all the countrymen he helped recover and repatriate. "But she was the only one," he says. "It's the only case that's going to haunt...