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...combination of environmental concerns and escalating oil prices is heating up interest. The biggest problem will be getting the fuel to market. With natural-gas demand up 16% from 1986 to 1989, the 1.2 million-mile network of pipelines that haul gas from the fields to users is inadequate. Much of the current system is geared to serving old Rust Belt users, while the greatest need for increased supply is on the East and West coasts. But construction plans have been stalled by environmental opposition -- ironic considering the good safety record of the transmission companies -- as well as the lumbering...
Junior Spencer Punter paced Harvard, finishing second to Penn's Jarrod Neas with a time of 25:19. Punter and Todd Wells broke up a pack of Penn and Cornell runners at the one-mile mark and set the pace for Harvard's top five finishers, who stayed close behind...
Wells finished fourth, covering the five-mile course in 26:00. Rob Failla, Chris Woodward and Benjamin all crossed the line within 22 seconds of Wells in sixth, seventh and ninth places respectively...
Four Cornell runners, including eventual victor Stephanie Best, broke away at the starting line. Harvard sophomore Rachel Lewis stayed with the pack, and eventually finished second, covering the 3.1-mile course in 18:01. Lewis finished just 12 seconds behind Best, a four-time All-America in the 1500-meter race who finished third at Nationals last June. The pack of Cornell runners behind Lewis claimed third, fourth and fifth places, effectively wrapping up the meet...
...Wells visited the great immigration center at Ellis Island, about a mile off the lower tip of Manhattan. The distinguished British writer and advance man for the future wanted to see for himself how arrivals from the Old World were ushered into the new one. He found the process strangely unceremonious. "On they go, from this pen to that," he wrote, "pen by pen, towards a desk at a little metal wicket -- the gate of America...