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...Harvard does not have a single meet in the state of Massachusetts during the spring.VICTOR LOPEZ BAYOU CLASSICFreshman Jessica Fronk topped her personal best javelin throw of 44.49 meters—which she set the weekend before at the Texas Southern Relays—by tossing the spear 47.39 meters, good enough for a first-place finish at the Victor Lopez Bayou Classic hosted by Rice University.“That was amazing,” Stanton said of Fronk. “She’s not usually javelin. To get out there and throw the regional qualifying meet...
...qualified in multiple events for the three-day competition, which was held at Ohio State.Each of the three Crimson competitors recorded a top-25 finish in one event.Papadakis, competing in her third NCAA championships, delivered Harvard’s top individual performance. The senior placed 17th in the three-meter diving event with a score of 286.50.She finished just one spot outside of qualifying for finals in the event and the All-American distinction that comes with it. Ohio State’s Chelsea Davis went on to win with 365.85 points. It was Papadakis’ best-ever NCAA...
...miles (30 km) south of Mount Luo, workers take an open elevator car for a 21/2-minute plunge down a dark, icy shaft. At the bottom, amid swirling condensation and suffocating dankness, they enter a large hall labeled as face number 5,206. The night before, an engineer used 2-meter lengths of dynamite to blast 150 tons of rock from the roof. Now two men use an earthmover to load the rock so it can be hauled to the surface, where it is crushed and mixed in a bath of chemicals to leach out the precious metal...
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Most recently she was leading life as a grownup, working for an insurance company and making plans to study psychology in grad school. But many remember Vicki Van Meter as the brave sixth-grader beaming from the cockpit of her single-engine Cessna 172--the kid who in 1993 became the youngest girl to fly across the U.S. and, later, across the Atlantic to Scotland. Van Meter, who spent two years in Moldova in the Peace Corps, suffered from depression and died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound...