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...Senior James Kelley rounded out the scoring for the Crimson in 55th at a time of 26:19 for the 8K race. For the women, sophomore Lindsey Scherf finished in 17:30, second only to senior Katie Gwyther of Quinnipiac. Scherf’s performance, a 5:37 mile pace for the 6K race, helped the Crimson finish with 237 points—fourth of 44 teams, behind only Boston University, Williams, and Brown. Sophomore Sarah Bourne was second across the line for Harvard, placing 33rd in 18:49. Closing out the Crimson’s top five were sophomore...
Alpine climber Yuichiro Miura knows something about rapid descent?in 1970 he became the first person ever to ski Mount Everest, hurtling more than a mile down the peak's icy flank in less than two minutes, and barely surviving. But handling the downhill slope of his own life proved trickier. Miura retired from climbing at age 60, deciding he was too old to haul himself up mountains anymore, but after five lazy years of Japanese beer and Korean barbecue, he had an epiphany: "I was only talking about my past, not my future. I wanted to challenge my dreams...
...they alone have been tending the wounded, clearing the landslides and extracting the dead. The land we are standing on, they explain to the accompaniment of frequent shaking aftershocks, was the epicenter. Muzzafarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir where at least11,000 people are feared dead, is just a mile away over the mountains as the crow flies...
...here," she says, "my whole physiology has changed." Deel, however, now has a different sort of headache. Alternative-energy companies Michigan Wind Energy and Mackinaw Power plan to build dozens of wind turbines--290-ft.-tall white steel pinwheels--across the county. Some may stand just a quarter-mile from Deel's new house, and she believes that their looming presence will erode the value of her property. She and her neighbors will ask the township this week for a six-month moratorium to reconsider its role in Michigan's largest wind-energy project...
Among the rarest honors that President Bush bestows is induction into the Hundred Degree Club. Its members are the aides who have managed to keep up with him running a dusty three-mile course at his Crawford, Texas, ranch when the temperature is above 100°. It's certainly one way to get to know someone's heart, or at least his heart rate. Harriet Miers, 60, Bush's former personal lawyer, then loyal White House aide, was one of the few women to spend time clearing cedar with Bush on the ranch and pacing him on his runs, and over...