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...three-day Ivy League Championships. The Crimson (6-1, 6-1 Ivy) has been cruising through its season, losing only one meet to the reigning three-time Ivy League champion Princeton Tigers (7-0, 7-0). When Harvard faced the Tigers earlier this month, Princeton escaped by a narrow 22-point margin, and this weekend the Crimson is looking for revenge. Harvard is in an eerily familiar position heading into the weekend’s meet. Last year’s squad was also 6-1 in dual meets and also faced Princeton as its top competition. The Crimson barely...
London: Sir John Soane's Museum John Soane, architect of the Bank of England when it was rebuilt in 1833, created this museum in his own house to showcase his massive collection of antiquities, artifacts and copies of Greek and Roman sculptures. Accessed via winding staircases, the narrow galleries are filled with plaster oddities: men fighting with griffins, single feet and knees, an acanthus leaf, a devil's face. Soane intended to create an Academy of Architecture, but ended up with a richly eccentric folly. For more information, go to www.soane.org. - by Lucy Fisher (See 10 things...
Students can be very tough on themselves. It concerns me that some carry a very narrow definition of success and others see asking for help as a sign of weakness. Years ago, freelance writer Linda Weltner shared the following story attributed to Norris Lee in The Boston Globe...
Funds go directly to states to help them narrow their deficits and bridge budget gaps...
...what happened? In 1999, after several high-profile cases in which women undergoing VBAC ruptured their uterus, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) changed its guidelines from stipulating that surgeons and anesthesiologists should be "readily available" during a VBAC to "immediately available." "Our goal wasn't to narrow the scope of patients who would be eligible, but to make it safe," says Dr. Carolyn Zelop, co-author of ACOG's most recent VBAC guidelines...