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...time at the UAlbany Invitational last month.Slykous was the second Harvard finisher, coming in at seventh overall with a time of 19:43.Freshmen Alison Lee, Kirsten Jorgensen, and Elizabeth Heller finished ninth, 10th, and 11th, respectively, with times of 19:52, 20:19, and 20:31. Fellow freshman Meg Looney rounded out the Crimson effort with a 13th-place time of 20:58.On the men’s side, freshman Michael Hoffman crossed the finish line at 26:32 in the 8K race to earn 13th, while classmate Darcy Wilson seized the 22nd spot with his 27:25 finish...
With the New England Collegiate Championships just a stone’s throw away from Harvard Yard, the Crimson cross-country squad saw limited action as it prepares for the gauntlet of championships that fills out the rest of the season’s schedule. Freshman Meg Looney was the sole Harvard competitor at the Franklin Park race, finishing 94th in a field of 309 with a time of 20:30. “To be honest, we kept New England’s on the schedule so we had options,” Harvard coach Jason Saretsky said...
...this for Hannibal Rising: it's better than Baby Looney Toons, Young Indiana Jones or The Phantom Menace. But it certifies a radical shift in Harris' attitude toward Hannibal that was first evident in the last book and nearly consumes this...
That's why Looney wants to reach even the youngest kids with a message of moderation. "The program isn't there to say whether gambling is bad or good," he says. "We just want kids to learn how to make good choices." The curriculum remains voluntary for schools, however, and Looney admits that responsible-gambling programs like his often get squeezed out of the busy school year by higher priority subjects like sex education and drug prevention...
Many parents may not mind their kids playing poker, but even those moms and dads know that there are risks. The biggest of those, namely, is the risk of addiction. Ed Looney, executive director of the Council of Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, says that as a rule of thumb, 80% of kids who start gambling will just dabble in it with no further harm, 15% will have some signs of problem gambling (playing past their budget, lying about losses), and 5% will become truly addicted...