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With that mindset, Harvard sprinted out to an early lead, touching the wall first in five of the first seven races. The advantage would have been more substantial were it not for two razor-thin Navy victories in the 200-meter freestyle and then the 100-meter breaststroke two events later...
...single square meter of the solar-ready plastic will cost about $100 and last about 20 years, so a complete roof would cost a few thousand dollars. Nanosys' co-founder and head of business development, Stephen Empedocles, says that's a good investment, since the tiles will generate electricity at a cost of about 4˘ per kW-h, well below the 20˘ to $1 for traditional solar panels...
...channel Elmer Fudd onscreen, but in real life he's all business, and indeed has aspirations to become an entertainment mogul. "Every actor has to specialize to survive," Tsang, 50, says. "My specialty is looking like a cartoon character." Looney Tuning himself has paid off handsomely for the 1.6-meter-tall actor: over the past 30 years he has worked steadily and made a name for himself as one of the most reliable?and castable?actors in Asia. Lately, however, Tsang has won over critics as well as moviegoers with a more sinister turn as Sam, the triad boss...
McLean-Foreman is one of the stars of Harvard’s cross-country and indoor track teams, and a budding sporting-goods entrepreneur. Originally from Bath, England, he took up competitive running at the age of 15, after finishing his first 800 meter race—during his high school’s intramural sports day—in an incredibly fast time of 1:55. He opted to matriculate to Harvard over Oxbridge because British universities do not allow their students the same opportunity to focus on sports. Despite taking last year off and practicing without a coach...
McLean-Foreman shows his true British colors in his drink of choice. Former teammate Brandon Smith ’04 recalls one track party “where Alasdair, being an 800 meter runner and English, became ecstatic upon being given a 40 that combined both of these stellar qualities—it was none other than the finest malt liquor: Olde English 800. The smile on his face could not be contained.” And, Smith adds, “neither could the redness that flushed his face due to the alcohol he had already consumed...