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...adage "stubborn as a mule" has any truth to it, then the Harvard women's ice hockey team beat Colby at its own game...
About four centuries after Shakespeare wrote, "Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath," Mose Coleman harvested the first Vidalia onion, ate it and found, among other things, that his breath would not fell a mule. That was in 1931, and Coleman, who is now 82, took his onion to a buyer for a food-store chain. "I pulled out my onion and my knife," he recalls, "and I ate it there in front of him. He'd never seen anything like it. There wasn't any tears coming out of my eyes...
...smuggler's most foolhardy practice is called body packing: they swallow cocaine-filled rubber packets, usually made of fingers snipped from surgical gloves. The carriers, known as mules, gulp down the packets in Colombia with the intention of excreting them in the U.S. The danger to the mule is that a packet may rupture, causing a massive drug overdose. The technique is becoming either safer or less popular. Since late 1980, the Dade County coroner has not come across any body-packing fatalities, after an earlier spate of such deaths. Yet during the past year at Kennedy International Airport...
...biggest win of the day came on the one-meter diving board, as sophomore All-American Dan Watson outbounced everyone in sight on the way to a 474.11 total. Harvard's other flyers, considered the best diving corps in the East, finished disappointingly deep in the pack. Senior Jeff Mule, second on the low board a year ago, finished ninth and junior Karl llig, sixth in 1982, placed 10th...
After the two squads skated through a scoreless first period, Harvard tallied the first score when Kathy Carroll took a pass from Vicki Palmer and slapped it past Mule goalie Mary White...