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...faces and new energy, we’ll be looking forward to next year.” If the Crimson can limit its injuries and post a consistent starting lineup, the grapplers can look to turn stellar individual achievements into tremendous team success. —Staff writer Max N. Brondfield can be reached at mbrondf@fas.harvard.edu...
...year the serious money rolled in, Gerry purchased a chunk of Max Yasgur's farm, 37.5 fabled acres (15.2 hectares), with that lovely sloping field that I can say with authority is one of the most uncomfortable places in North America if you happen to be stretched out in a damp sleeping bag. Eventually he bought nearly 2,000 adjacent acres (about 800 hectares), enough to start thinking about putting in a golf course and even a theme park--bad ideas that he abandoned. Instead, two years ago he opened the Pavilion Stage there, an outdoor concert venue whose lineup...
...even a formula, called the efficiency of conversion of ingested food to body substance (ECI), that can be used to compare the weight different animals gain after eating a certain quantity of feed. Beef cattle have an ECI of 10. Silkworms range from 19 to 31. German cockroaches max...
Outside Pueblo, Colorado, 101 rescued horses graze on 850 acres at Dreamcatchers Equine Sanctuary, and more are on the way. "It's a very scary situation right now," explains manager Julie DeMuesy. "Everybody's stressed to the max. It exploded for us at the end of 2007." Some horses are coming from people who have had their mortgages foreclosed, and can't afford to feed their steeds. "We're trying desperately to reduce our herd [by sending horses] to good homes. It's become a revolving door - They're coming in as fast as they are going...
...cane, but he uses it less for support than as a jaunty prop -twirling it, pointing it at the cheering audience - till you expect him to break into a song-and-dance routine. The cane might be a tribute to his first cinema idol, the dapper French comic Max Linder, who influenced Charlie Chaplin, Oliveira's second idol. In the audience, clearly buoyed by the old man's energy, were other distinguished directors: Cannes Jury President Sean Penn, Marjane Satrapi of Persepolis and a young pup named Clint Eastwood, who will be 78 at the end of the month...