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Intermission - In other ECAC news, besides Harvard's 3-0 win over Cornell last night, all three tournament games ended in overtime. The big sleeper in the conference this season RPI, upset Princeton in extra minutes. That program has really improved since I've started covering this beat. Two years ago, whenever Harvard played RPI, the question was how many Crimson players would get a hat trick. This season, the Engineers tied Harvard in their first meeting...
Intermission - Dartmouth and Colgate are tied right now at 1 during the first intermission. The struggling Big Green lost last night, so the team is fighting to extend its season. Whoever wins this series will likely be Harvard's next opponent, should the Crimson advance...
...vampires are dangerous. Of course we are scared," says her neighbor Alberdina del Carmen Reyes, whose rustic wood-plank shanty is filled with gaps big enough for the flying mammals to sneak through during the night. Reyes' 5-year-old granddaughter was attacked in her sleep several weeks ago and awoke to a similarly gory scene in her bed. "The government tells us to cover our beds with mosquito nets at night," says Reyes, "but we don't have the money to buy them." Many of the impoverished families in this countryside community of Llano Grande 2, Masaya, have similar...
...like a celebrity event. As the two men set up their capture nets around the well, local residents greeted them with gifts of bread, plates of food, coffee and a liter of some unrecognizable brand of soda. As the town folk retreated to their homes, dusk gave way to night and only the outlines of the wind-blown palm trees could be seen swaying against the starry sky of the moonless night. Amador and Iglesias, whom I had been talking to moments earlier in the dark, were suddenly snoring in their hammocks. I sat in the back of pickup truck...
...when people act on their ignorance and kill beneficial bats, they are really putting themselves at even greater risk from the real blood-feeding terrors of the night: mosquitoes. Many more people die each year from mosquito-born diseases than from bat-transmitted rabies. And as someone who's already had dengue fever, I'm much more afraid of getting bit by mosquitoes than vampires...