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...highlight of the meet for the Crimson was the record-breaking run of the one-mile relay team. After last week's unfortunate disqualification at the Heptagonals, all four members had something to prove...
...other Harvard representatives were sophomores Margaret Angell (mile) and Heather Stroud (1000 meter). Neither managed to make it out of their respective heats, but "they both ran really gutsy races," said Williams...
Angell, who had finished an excellent third in the Heptagonals last weekend, found it difficult to raise her performance one more time and finished the mile in 5:07.43 minutes...
...Iditarod's 24 races and never lost a dog, is the first musher affected by a regulation added this year. Nicknamed "the dead dog rule," the provision declares that mushers will be disqualified if any of their dogs expire on the 1,151-mile trail due to a preventable error. Swenson reacted to his expulsion by saying that the Iditarod had become a "circus" run by people who knew little about dog racing. "I have nothing to prove," Swenson told KTUU-TV in Anchorage, "There are other dog races in the world." According to Swenson, his 16-dog team didn...
...years after the disastrous uncontained meltdown at Chernobyl, 17 years after the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island, most Americans probably give only passing thought to the issue of nuclear safety. But the story of George Galatis and Millstone suggests that the NRC itself may be giving only passing thought to the issue--that it may be more concerned with propping up an embattled, economically straitened industry than with ensuring public safety. When a nuclear plant violates safety standards and the federal watchdog turns a blind eye, the question arises, How safe are America's nuclear plants...