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...ever in its long and storied history, the 2009 Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships was moved from its usual east coast location to Sacramento, Calif., where the nation’s top crews duked it out from Thursday through Saturday. The 2000-meter Lake Natoma course played host to five men??s heavyweight events (a reduction from previous years) as well as a men??s and women’s lightweight competition. Also making its first appearance in this year’s iteration of the regatta was a new selection standard, which required boats...
...section leader in the Mozart Society Orchestra, or just hanging out, Peter Cai ’10 could always be found with a smile on his face, friends said. The Adams House resident died suddenly late last October, going into cardiac arrest near Weld Boathouse after completing the men??s race of the semiannual River Run. “This is the worst type of tragedy,” said Adams House Master Sean G. Palfrey ’67. “It was unexpected, unexplained, sudden, and absolute. Despite having every possible resource available to help...
This shift in gender ratios may have other, less heralded implications, however. Some of our own work has suggested that this shift may actually shorten men??s lives, reversing some of the historic progress our species has made in recent centuries. Across a range of species, skewed sex ratios result in intensified competition for sexual partners and this induces stress for the supernumerary sex. In humans, it seems, a 5 percent excess of males at the time of sexual maturity shortens the survival of men by about three months in late life, which is a very substantial loss...
...list the fact that the Harvard men??s basketball team had never won against a ranked opponent since its inception...
...Perhaps BC is not the first school brought up when discussion arises on men??s college basketball. The Eagles are not a household name like Duke, nor a decorated squad like UCLA, with scores of banners and retired jerseys hanging from the gymnasium rafters...