Word: meter
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...men’s 7,945-meter race, the Crimson was led by junior Alasdair McLean-Foreman, who missed last season but made an impressive return with an eighth-place finish in a time of 24:48. Junior captain Reed Bienvenu narrowly missed a top-ten finish, taking 14th...
...senior tandem of Beverly Whelan (18:25) and Mairead O’Callaghan (18:52) led the way for the Crimson, placing 12th and 19th, respectively, in the 5,015-meter race. They were trailed closely by junior Kimberly Smith (18:58) and senior Virginia Scott (19:10), who took 22nd and 30th. Laura Maludzinski (19:14), last year’s freshman phenom, rounded out Harvard’s top five in 34th place. As a team, the Crimson ran better times than they have at the Boston College meet in the past two years...
...pack? A teleporter? No, it was the Segway scooter, a goofily innocuous machine that seems to have been designed solely so George W. Bush could tumble off one, as he did this summer in Maine. From dreams of rocket men flying across space-age cityscapes to visions of meter readers riding glorified hand trucks--this is what we get when we are so unfortunate as to live long enough to see the next big thing arrive...
Dubbed the Clown Prince of track and field, U.S. sprinter JON DRUMMOND threw a world-class tantrum in Paris last Sunday. He lay in his lane, refusing to budge, after he was disqualified from the 100-meter world-championship quarter-finals for a false start. Some hope officials will revisit their reliance on gate sensors. "If you so much as pass gas, you get a false start," says runner Kim Collins...
...nanoscopic hamlet of Top Station is the highest point on the road from Munnar to Kodaikanal and lies smack in the scruffy workaday heart of Kerala's main tea-growing region. Innumerable tons of the stuff that fills breakfast mugs around the world originates here, on the 1,600-meter-high ranges of the western Ghats. In the last days of the Raj, white planters came in their grateful droves, lured by the green hills and tolerable climate. Today, though, this is the domain of Indian agribusiness, and you'll barely see a non-Indian face. The only visitors tend...