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...judges tell me flat out that they preferred Harvard students and put the resumes of Stanford students to the side,” said third-year student Alexander S. Del Nido...
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Technically, the landslides that hit Laguna Beach, Loma Mar and Rio Nido are known as debris flows. These are shallow slides that involve only the top layer of soil and usually occur during rainstorms. Debris flows are dangerous; they can run at speeds as high as 40 m.p.h., far faster than a person can run. Fortunately, most debris flows funnel through fairly narrow channels, and so the damage they inflict is limited. But Californians are at risk for a second type of slide, which the U.S. Geological Survey's David Howell refers to as a "bedrock landslide." Such deep-seated...
What happened at Laguna Beach last week happened at Loma Mar and Rio Nido a couple of weeks before, as torrents of mud filled with debris smashed into dwellings with terrifying force. No one died in the Rio Nido slide, but homeowner Gary LaCombe feels lucky to be alive. He vividly remembers watching a tree's mammoth root ball, 12 ft. in diameter, hurtle toward his kitchen window, then veer off at the last minute, narrowly missing his house. Now LaCombe, along with his wife Phyllis and a few hundred of his neighbors, has been evacuated by county officials, barred...
...Chuck Kriese said after-wards. "We didn't really do anything to win the doubles. They were down, and like a wounded animal they came back. "The Tigers have lost only two sets in 30 played in their last 10 matches, and two pairs are ranked nationally Krantz and Nido are ranked 36th while all Harvard's pairs are unranked...