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After an exciting mile-relay victory, run in 3:20.64 by Horner, John Rowe, Gino Patrizio, and John Mee, Harvard led 70.5 to 69.5, and the meet came down to the final race, the men's two-mile relay...
...figured we'd have to win both relays [the one-mile and the two-mile] to win the meet. I almost exactly predicted the score," Haggerty said. "I'm pleased with the effort. I didn't want people to worry about times and distances, I just wanted them to be competitive. Losing like that sometimes clouds the fact that they did well...
Nuclear plants have the potential of providing abundant supplies of electricity without spewing pollutants into the atmosphere. But the nuclear- power industry has failed to deliver on that promise, at least in the U.S. Even before the accident at Three Mile Island in 1979, the costs of making atomic power safe were spiraling out of control. Since that episode, the industry has been at a standstill...
...more than 20 years. It was largely ignored in favor of a technology -- the water-cooled reactor -- that had already been proved in nuclear submarines. But water-cooled reactors are particularly susceptible to the rapid loss of coolant, which led to the accidents at both Chernobyl and Three Mile Island...
...rise by 3 ft. to 5 ft. over the next century, as some scientists have predicted? One option would be to construct levees and dikes. The Netherlands, after all, has flourished more than 12 ft. below sea level for hundreds of years. Its newest bulwark is a 5.6-mile dam made up of 131-ft. steel locks that remain open during normal conditions, to preserve the tidal flow that feeds the rich local sea life, but can be closed when rough weather threatens. Venice is beginning to put into place a 1.2-mile flexible seawall that would protect its treasured...