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With the score knotted at zero and the Crimson offense stumbling out of the gate, linebacker Matt Thomas wrapped up Holy Cross quarterback John O’Neil mid-release, sending the ball high and well off-target—and Williamson backpedaling in pursuit...
...It’s mid-September, and school has resumed. Harvard students return from their travels, vacations and thesis projects around the globe. We spent last week unpacking our belongings and digging futons out of storage. The parental units are gone, and with a day left of summer, it seems as though the last strains of a saccharine melody are still ringing in our ears. The clock above the Citizens’ Bank proclaims the minutes and hours to our little world—a beacon to students late for class and a constant reminder of the exacting pace...
...than two major hurricanes per year, which raises the central question of this hurricane season: Why is the Atlantic producing so many big storms these days? The reason, believes Goldenberg, lies in a broad 1°F-to-1.5°F rise in sea-surface temperatures that occurred in the mid-1990s. That slight but significant increase is thought to be due to a cyclical shift in ocean-circulation patterns. When the Atlantic last warmed, between 1926 and 1970, a parade of monster storms menaced the Caribbean and the coastal U.S. Then, between 1970 and 1994, sea-surface temperatures dropped...
...raising cows, sheep and goats, the landscape's stark divide is testimony to their need for grazing lands. With a population of about half a million, the Masai are one of the smallest tribes in this country of 32 million, but at the time of European arrival in the mid-19th century they dominated most of what is now western Kenya. Starting with a 1904 treaty with the British, they ceded much of the region's best grazing land to European farmers and consigned themselves to isolated reservations. That treaty, the Masai claim, has lapsed with its 100th anniversary...
...year-old pebble found among raw ochre lumps on Sai Island in the Nile appears to be smeared with yellow and red pigment. If the color was consciously applied, the stone is one of the earliest indications of artistic expression ever found. Sandstone lions from the mid-1st century B.C. symbolize the Kushite state, and a gilded representation of a Kushite King is the largest copper-alloy statue yet found in Sudan. The Nubian settlement of Kerma was home to the earliest major urban centers in sub-Saharan Africa and produced, says curator Derek A. Welsby, "superb pottery, among...