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...psychological shock as a military one. The Belgrano was the second largest ship in the Argentine navy, behind the 39-year-old aircraft carrier Veinticinco de Mayo. Loss of the vessel was a substantive blow to Argentine prestige. Moreover, the decision to sink the Belgrano outside the 200-mile blockade constituted a sharp escalation of the fighting and an abrupt change from the "minimal use of force" concept...
...EARC Sprints end the season for the lightweights, but the heavies will continue to train for June's Sexton Cup, a head to-head, four-mile marathon with Yale in New London. Named for the manager of Harvard's 1883 crew, the Sexton Cup is the oldest college athletic event still held annually...
...past three decades, farmers have pumped water out of the Ogallala as if it were inexhaustible. Nowadays they disperse it prodigally through huge center-pivot irrigation sprinklers, which moisten circular swaths a quarter-mile in diameter. The annual overdraft (the amount of water not replenished) is nearly equal to the yearly flow of the Colorado River. Like all aquifers, the Ogallala depends on rain water for recharging, and only a trickle of the annual local rainfall ever reaches it. Gradually built up over millions of years, the aquifer is being drained in a fraction of that time. The question...
Winthrop House tutor Rodney Pearson won a 50-mile race at the championships of the New England Athletics Congress, with a time of six hours, 50 minutes, 31 seconds. He finished almost a mile ahead of the second-place finisher...
...storybook ending to a storybook career. The Harvard men's track team delivered a convincing mile relay victory to cap off an 86-77 triumph over Northeastern in Coach Bill McCurdy's last regular season meet Saturday afternoon...